Entertainment & Sports,
Criminal
Mar. 24, 2023
Stream it Tonight! Gideon's Trumpet (1980)
To comply with Gideon, most states have established public defender offices, but they are often drastically underfunded and public defenders have inadequate time or resources to handle their huge caseloads.
Paul Bergman
Professor Emeritus
UCLA School of Law
Email: bergman@law.ucla.edu
Paul continues teaching evidence.
Michael Asimow
Professor
UCLA School of Law
Email: asimow@law.ucla.edu
Michael is Dean's Executive professor of law at Santa Clara Law School, teaching contracts as well as law and popular culture.
Why watch? This televised docu-drama tells the story of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision establishing a right to counsel for criminal defendants.
Sixty years ago on March 18, the U. S. Supreme Court decided in Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963), that states must provide appointed counsel in any case in which the defendant faced imprisonment. Gideon overruled the 1942 case of Betts v. Brady, 316 U.S. 455 ...
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