Gideon v. United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• clerk of court abused discretion by sending out a questionnaire to prospective jurors
• “Had such a questionnaire been sent out by attorneys for some of the defendants awaiting trial, we cannot doubt that the proceeding would have been open to severe criticism.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).