Question

Questions are for the movie “Gideon’s Trumpet”

a. How in the case of Gideon is the Supreme Court changing/creating public policy?

b. How is the Supreme Court acting in the Gideon case as the arbiter of the US Constitution? (Include Specific Consitutional Amendments)

Answer 1

A. In Gideon, the Court took this jurisprudence further, ruling that the Sixth Amendment requires states to provide defense attorneys to any indigent criminal defendant charged with a felony (generally a crime punishable by imprisonment of more than one year