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Gideon

Clarence Earl Gideon, former prisoner No. 003826 of the Florida State Prison, without the assistance of counsel, petitioned the United States Supreme Court from a prison cell. The idea was inconceivable to Gideon. In the year 1962, the Constitution could allow a man to be tried without a lawyer because he could not afford one. Gideon even stated at trial, "The United States Supreme Court says I am entitled to be represented by counsel." Gideon was wrong, of course. The Supreme Court had actually said quite the opposite. A precedent concerning the due process right to counsel was established by the Supreme Court in 1942 in a case involving an unemployed Maryland man, Smith Betts. Betts, charged with robbery, pleaded not guilty, and b

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