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020 _a9781595588692
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035 _a(OCoLC)819741873
_z(OCoLC)807025094
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100 1 _aHouppert, Karen,
_d1956-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aChasing Gideon :
_bthe elusive quest for poor people's justice /
_cKaren Houppert.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bThe New Press,
_c2013.
300 _axi, 275 pages :
_billustration ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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_2rdacarrier
500 _a"Earlier and shorter versions of the chapters "A Perfect Storm" and "Death in Georgia" were first published in The Nation --verso of title page.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 265-274).
505 0 _aDue process theater : a case of vehicular homicide -- "I have no counsel" : the man behind Gideon v. Wainwright -- A perfect storm : looking for justice in New Orleans -- Death in Georgia : a capital offense.
520 _aOn the 50th anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright, the landmark case that led to free legal counsel for those who needed it, a veteran journalist investigates the way justice is delivered to the poor--and discovers a crisis in our nation's courts.
520 _a"On 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"--Provided by publisher.
650 0 _aLegal assistance to the poor
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aRight to counsel
_zUnited States.
650 7 _aLegal assistance to the poor.
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650 7 _aRight to counsel.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01097890
651 7 _aUnited States.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01204155
655 4 _aNonfiction.
776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aHouppert, Karen, 1956-
_tChasing Gideon.
_dNew York : The New Press, [2013]
_z9781595588920
_w(OCoLC)836875380
856 4 2 _zAdditional Information at Google Books
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