a couple of beers and bottles of wine and a restive and brought to court there in florida, and he approached the judge on the day of the trial and said i m not ready to go to trial. i want an attorney. he said can you have an attorney, and clarence or gideon said you re entitled to the constitution that guarantees my right to an attorney, and the judge said no, it doesn t, you have to try yourself and the judge very kindly coaxed him through the trial. it s very complicated selecting a jury is very complicated and he kind of bumbled along and lost his case and sent to prison he and drove in pencil a semiliterate letter to the u.s. supreme court. my right to an attorney has been violated. i deserve an attorney if i am charged with a crime in this country. the supreme court had kind of been waiting for a case like this to come along it seems like. the timing was right. they kind of stacked the deck in his favor by appointing him this attorney who was this very, very high-powere