book "Gideon's Trumpet" by Anthony Lewis

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"Gideon's Trumpet" is a nonfiction book by Anthony Lewis that recounts Clarence Earl Gideon's landmark U.S. Supreme Court case, Gideon v. Wainwright, which established the right to legal counsel for criminal defendants who cannot afford an attorney.

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instanceOf legal history book
nonfiction book
adaptationMedium television
adaptationYear 1980
adaptedAs television film "Gideon's Trumpet"
author Anthony Lewis
awarded Edgar Award
surface form: Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime
awardYear 1965
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
depicts struggle of an indigent defendant for legal representation
deweyDecimalClassification 345.73/052
347.30552
explains United States constitutional law
surface form: Fourteenth Amendment incorporation doctrine

Sixth Amendment right to counsel
focusesOnEvent Gideon v. Wainwright
surface form: Gideon v. Wainwright decision
genre legal nonfiction
narrative nonfiction
influenced public understanding of the right to counsel
intendedAudience general readers
students of law and history
ISBN 9780394713803
language English
libraryOfCongressClassification KF9646 .L4
mainCharacter Clarence Earl Gideon
mediaType print
notableFor accessible explanation of a landmark Supreme Court case
humanizing an indigent defendant
pages approximately 288
portrays U.S. Supreme Court decision-making process
role of appointed counsel in criminal cases
publicationYear 1964
publisher Random House
relatedTo Escobedo v. Illinois
Miranda v. Arizona
relatedWork Gideon v. Wainwright
surface form: Gideon v. Wainwright (Supreme Court opinion)
setInPeriod early 1960s
setInPlace Florida
Washington, D.C.
subject Gideon v. Wainwright
Supreme Court of the United States
surface form: United States Supreme Court

criminal procedure
indigent defense
right to counsel
timePeriodDescribed 1961 burglary conviction of Clarence Earl Gideon
1963 Supreme Court ruling in Gideon v. Wainwright
usedIn criminal justice education
law school curricula

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