LEADER 03742nam 2200553Ia 450 001 9910824904803321 005 20240410174004.0 010 $a1-59558-892-2 035 $a(CKB)2550000001042358 035 $a(EBL)3029019 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000835061 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12410646 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000835061 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10989613 035 $a(PQKB)11341792 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3029019 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3029019 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10672900 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL574908 035 $a(OCoLC)836875380 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001042358 100 $a20121127d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aChasing Gideon $ethe elusive quest for poor people's justice /$fKaren Houppert 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cNew Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (288 p.) 300 $a"Earlier and shorter versions of the chapters "A Perfect Storm" and "Death in Georgia" were first published in The Nation." 311 $a1-59558-869-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $a""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1""; ""Chapter 2""; ""Chapter 3""; ""Chapter 4""; ""Conclusion""; ""Afterword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""American Bar Association's Ten Principles of A Public Defense Delivery System""; ""Notes"" 330 $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. 606 $aLegal assistance to the poor$zUnited States 606 $aRight to counsel$zUnited States 615 0$aLegal assistance to the poor 615 0$aRight to counsel 676 $a345.73/056 700 $aHouppert$b Karen$f1962-$01673237 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824904803321 996 $aChasing Gideon$94037192 997 $aUNINA