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100	1		_aHouppert, Karen.
245	1	0	_aChasing Gideon : _bThe Elusive Quest for Poor People's Justice.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aNew York : _bNew Press, The, _c2013.
264		4	_c©2013.
300			_a1 online resource (268 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aIntro -- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Due Process Theater: A Case of Vehicular Homicide -- Chapter 2: "I Have No Counsel": The Man Behind Gideon v. Wainwright -- Chapter 3: A Perfect Storm: Looking for Justice in New Orleans -- Chapter 4: Death in Georgia: A Capital Offense -- Conclusion -- Afterword by David J. Carroll -- Acknowledgments -- American Bar Association's Ten Principles of a Public Defense Delivery System by the Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants -- Notes.
520			_aOn 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 of criminal defendants are served by public defenders. In a book that combines the sweep of history with the intimate details of individual lives and legal cases, veteran reporter Karen Houppert movingly chronicles the stories of people in all parts of the country who have relied on Gideon's promise. There is the harrowing saga of a young man who is charged with involuntary vehicular homicide in Washington State, where overextended public defenders juggle impossible caseloads, forcing his defender to go to court to protect her own right to provide an adequate defense. In Florida, Houppert describes a public defender's office, loaded with upward of seven hundred cases per attorney, and discovers the degree to which Clarence Earl Gideon's promise is still unrealized. In New Orleans, she follows the case of a man imprisoned for twenty-seven years for a crime he didn't commit, finding a public defense system already near collapse before Katrina and chronicling the harrowing months after the storm, during which overworked volunteers and students struggled to get the system working again. In Georgia, Houppert finds a mentally disabled man who is to be executed for murder, despite the best efforts of a dedicated but severely overworked and underfunded capital defender. Half a century after Anthony Lewis's award-winning Gideon's Trumpet brought us the story of the court case that changed the American justice system, Chasing Gideon is a crucial book that provides essential reckoning of our attempts to implement this fundamental constitutional right.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aLegal assistance to the poor - United States.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aHouppert, Karen _tChasing Gideon _dNew York : New Press, The,c2013 _z9781595588692
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3029019 _zClick to View
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