Gideon's Beliefs

Ehud * Rescued the Israelites from Moabites. Shamgar – next judge of Israel. * Delivered them from Philistines. Deborah – 21 Century B.C. * First female judge.

1- Gideon is a fifty one year old man who was accused of breaking and entering and stealing approximately five dollars from from a vending machine on june 3rd 1961 at 5:30 am. There was one proclaimed witness to the supposed crime, and,the person who drove gideon home was told by gideon that “if anybody asked i hadn't seen him” which was coincidental to the time of the crime.

Gideon was sent to jail for two years for something he did not do. He wrote letters to the supreme court they agreed to hear the case.They was trying to send him to the same judge that he had for his first trial and he asked could he have a different lawyer and different judge. and he got what he asked for. He then went to another judge and lawyer which was Mr.Turner and he was good choice to pick in my opinion. He got all his points through and he helped Gideon win the retrial.

Mr. Gideon was brought to trial without counsel and was found guilty by a jury. He was

Gideon requested that the court needs to appoint him a lawyer, which was quickly denied by the court because under the Florida law, the law only permits appointment of counsel to poor defendants charged with capital offense. Because of this, Gideon represented himself and was later found guilty and charged to five years in prison. Gideon later wrote to the U.S. Supreme Court stating that his rights were violated

Gideon’s Army portrays the lives of three public defenders who fight to help other people who cannot afford to hire an attorney. Brandy Alexander, Travis Williams, and June Harwick are three public defenders working in the South. All of them are fighting three different cases and trying hard to win the cases. Alexander is representing a high school student who is accused of robbing a pizza store. Williams is representing a man named Mullin, who is facing 10 years in prison for a theft case. On the other hand, Hardwick has a different client. His client is already in the prison and she has lost her house and job while in the prison. All of the clients the defenders are helping are poor and are unable to hire a private attorney. While the three

In 1961, a man named Clarence Earl Gideon went to court in order to try and prove his innocence. Gideon was charged with breaking and entering with the intent to commit a misdemeanor, which is a felony under Florida law. Gideon had to represent himself, for he had little money and not enough for a lawyer. He asked the judge if he could be appointed a lawyer to defend him, but the judge denied Gideon’s request on account that he wasn’t helplessly broke and he hadn’t committed a capital offense. But against the odds, he put effort into representing himself. But due to the lack of experience and tactics, he defended himself very poorly and he wasn’t able to win and he was sentenced to five years in prison.

Gideon did not waste any time in prison, spending most his time reading about the constitution and his rights. Soon after Gideon wrote into the Supreme Court for a release, for violating of his constitutional rights, even though his lack of intelligence. Gideon was not a rich man and believed anyone has the equal right on an attorney for a fair trial. The constitution

Interestingly, prior to 1932 the Right to Counsel Clause merely meant that you could hire an outside attorney to represent you in court if you chose and could afford to do so. In Powell v. Alabama, (1932), all that changed when the Supreme Court ruled to establish the right to counsel in capital cases stating that an attorney should be appointed to a defendant who otherwise could not afford one or who is incapable of making their own defense. This ruling however, only applied to Federal government. In 1938 under Johnson v. Zerbst the Supreme Court ruled that defendants have the right to an attorney even if they do not have a clear understanding of that.

They fled to an area protected by partisans, a resistance military group fighting against the Nazis. Unfortunately, shortly after he met the partisans, his mom and sister died in an ambush, gunned down by machine guns in front of Gideon. The partisan freedom fighters rescued Gideon and bravely, he kept his head up and kept pushing on to stay alive. The partisans were trying to protect Gideon because of Gideon’s father’s position. Gideon could not stay in the winter forest, so the partisans found a farmer who took Gideon in and protected him. Gideon had patience because he patiently waited for his dad who was a very important Rabbi and was finally reunited with his dad after a year and a half.

Gideon would spend most of the next thirty years in poverty and in and out of prison. Throughout this time he was married four times, the first three marriages ended

Even though they had not listen to God, they began crying out to God, and God loved them and heard their cries. God sent the angel of the lord to Gideon, who was threshing wheat in a winepress hiding from the Midianites. The angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon and said, “The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valour (mighty warrior).” I am sure that sounded funny in the ears

The people of Israel began to worship idols; and as a punishment God allowed them once more to pass under the power of their enemies. The seventh oppression, which now fell upon Israel, was by far the hardest, the longest and the most widely spread of any, for it was over all the tribes. It came from the Philistines, a strong and warlike people who lived on the west of Israel upon the plain beside the Great Sea. They were blasphemy towards Yahweh Dagon, which was made in the form of a fish 's head on a man 's body. These people, the Philistines, sent their armies up from the plain beside the sea to the mountains of Israel and overran all the land. They took away from the Israelites all their swords and spears, so that they could not fight; and they robbed their land of all the crops, so that the people suffered for want of food. And as before, the Israelites in their trouble, cried out to the Lord, and the Lord heard their prayer. In the tribe-land of Dan, which was next to the country of the Philistines, there was living a man named Manoah.

Deborah was a judge, meaning tribal leader in those times, who when outnumbered led the Israelite troops to a great victory, like the David and Goliath story. Like Deborah,

‘Judge,’ however, can also mean a military leader, presumably someone who makes tactical military decisions during wartime and also a general-type leader who fights alongside his or her soldiers. It seems possible that this role could also be designated to Deborah, since she travelled with Barak to gather soldiers for the Battle of Mount Tabor and subsequently convinced Sisera to engage in battle. Also, as Tikva Frymer-Kensky explains in Readings in the Bible: A New Interpretation of Their Stories, “the ‘judges’…usually acquired their political authority after they saved Israel through battle” (46). This directly connects to the possibility that Deborah engaged in war as a leader.