Chasing Gideon : the elusive quest for poor people's justice / Karen Houppert.

"On March 18, 1963, in one of its most significant legal decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright that all defendants facing significant jail time have the constitutional right to a free attorney if they cannot afford their own. Fifty years later, 80 percent o...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Houppert, Karen, 1956-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : The New Press, [2013]
Subjects:	Legal assistance to the poor > United States. Right to counsel > United States. Legal assistance to the poor. Right to counsel. United States.