A dramatization of the true story of Clarence Earl Gideon, an obscure, small-town man accused of breaking into a pool hall to steal money and cigarettes whose appeal to the Supreme Court led to the establishment of the right to legal counsel for every defendant.
Account of Clarence Earl Gideon who in 1962 was tried in Supreme Court without a lawyer because he could not afford one and how his case has changed the law of the United States.
