"In the morning mail of January 8, 1962, the Supreme Court of the United States received a large envelope from Clarence Earl Gideon, prisoner No. 003826, Florida State Prison, P.O. Box 221, Raiford, Florida." Gideon's Trumpet is Anthony Lewis's account of Gideon v. Wainwright, the landmark Supreme Court case that established the right of a criminal defendant to an attorney, even if he or she can not afford one. It is an engaging account of a case that changed the history of American law.
