Are ones that the court made very unpopular decisions. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of different people who help stuck together because they believe in a rule of law. Good evening and welcome to landmark cases. Tonights case is gideon versus wayne. Wreck 55 years ago this month, the Supreme Court ruled that the right to counsel was so fundamental to our dove governmental system. That states must provide lawyers for defendants who cannot afford. One the hero of tonights story is a bit of an unlikely. One Clarence Gideon was adrift her from florida was accused of breaking a pool. As we begin tonight, were gonna go to some historic video. You see the real mr. Gideon and the florida judge who sentenced to jail. They reenacted the case for cbs news documentary in 1965. Lets watch the next case on the docket is the state of florida versus Clarence Earl gideon. What says the state are you ready for trial . The st
And david ignatius. In a few minutes president carter will be in the next room signing his books. Thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] fort myers, florida on booktv. The city of palms, fort myers is noted for its beaches including. The river itself first became a boundary back in the 1830s and at that time we had the second seminole war going on. President Martin Van Buren has become very concerned about the cost of the war so he sent general alexander make room, who was the Commanding Officer of the entire United States army at that point down to florida with the orders to stop in his seminal work. Attorney general Robert Kennedy spoke at length on Lott Institute about the impact of gideon v. Wainwright. This is what he said. If an obscure and Clarence Earl gideon had not sat down jail with a pencil and paper to write his letter to Supreme Court and of the Supreme Court had not taken the trouble to look for mary and not one crude petition among all the bundles of
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