Ironically, if he had been convicted again, Clarence Earl Gideon might have been the named petitioner in the Supreme Court's later case upholding a defendant's constitutional right to represent himself. See Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806 (1975).” ("Gideon v Wainright at 40," 2003, para. 29) Luckily Gideon accepted local attorney W. Fred Turner to represent him and who had visited him in jail. Because of Gideon’s quirks Anthony Lewis may have felt he needed to write a more romanticized version of Clarence Gideon’s life and his struggle to change the legal system that he felt had denied him a right to council in his original trial for the pool hall robbery. Anthony Lewis was a Pulitzer Prize winning author, a staunch defender of first amendment rights and a prolific writer on constitutional questions. He may have felt that the world needed to know Gideon the crusader, defending his rights, rather than Gideon the as others at the time ‘nut’ described him. Unfortunately Anthony Lewis died Monday, March 25, 2013 as this is being written.
Ironically, if he had been convicted again, Clarence Earl Gideon might have been the named petitioner in the Supreme Court's later case upholding a defendant's constitutional right to represent himself. See Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806 (1975).” ("Gideon v Wainright at 40," 2003, para. 29) Luckily Gideon accepted local attorney W. Fred Turner to represent him and who had visited him in jail. Because of Gideon’s quirks Anthony Lewis may have felt he needed to write a more romanticized version of Clarence Gideon’s life and his struggle to change the legal system that he felt had denied him a right to council in his original trial for the pool hall robbery. Anthony Lewis was a Pulitzer Prize winning author, a staunch defender of first amendment rights and a prolific writer on constitutional questions. He may have felt that the world needed to know Gideon the crusader, defending his rights, rather than Gideon the ‘nut’ as others at the time described him. Unfortunately Anthony Lewis died Monday, March 25, 2013 as this is being written.
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