Essay

Fifty Years of Defiance and Resistance After Gideon v. Wainwright

122 Yale L.J. 2150 (2013).

In its 1963 ruling Gideon v. Wainwright, the Supreme Court declared the right to a lawyer “fundamental and essential” to fairness in the criminal courts and held that lawyers must be provided for people who could not afford them so that every person “stands equal before the…