No cases to be heard this week.
Recently, I learned that the book "Gideon's Trumpet," which details the story of Clarence Gideon's fight to get an attorney appointed to represent him at his criminal trial, was made into a movie back in 1980. The movie came out around the same time as First Monday in October. I guess I must not have been paying attention to legal movies when I was in grade school.
I thought I'd dedicate this open space to the movie, which stars Henry Fonda. The nice thing is that this case can get added to those few that show an appellate argument. So I thought I'd include the clips that dramatize the Supreme Court argument.
The first begins with a speech from Wainwright about his background. The dramatization of the Supreme Court argument begins at 6:15 of the video. Feel free to skip ahead. The second video is all argument. And the third has the final part. The whole thing is less than 15 minutes long. Notice that John Hausman plays a judge, meaning that in our fictional movie world he was elevated from a professor in the Paper Chase to a Supreme Court Justice in this movie.
Enjoy:
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