Amendment8Bail

Amendment 8: Bail and Punishment Our Project was done as a Podcast. Summury of **// Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) case. //** Mr. Gideon was accused of breaking into a pool hall and stealing money from a vending machine. He was so poor that he could not afford a lawyer so he defined himself. The court said that they only had to provide attorneys to indigent defendants in capital cases. The court ruled him guilty. The court held that indigent defendants in state courts had the Sixth Amendment right to be represented by a court-appointed attorney if they could not afford to hire their own.

Places that we got our info. http://www.rightsmatter.org/cases/index.html#furman

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0487_0815_ZS.html

http://www.oyez.org/cases/1970-1979/1975/1975_74_6257/>