A prisoner’s handwritten petition mailed to the U.S. Sureme Court from Raiford Prison in Florida was the basis for Gideon v. Wainwright, the case the established an institutionalized process for providing indigent suspects with a competent lawyer.
A prisoner’s handwritten petition mailed to the U.S. Sureme Court from Raiford Prison in Florida was the basis for Gideon v. Wainwright, the case the established an institutionalized process for providing indigent suspects with a competent lawyer.