The document summarizes Anthony Lewis's book "Gideon's Trumpet", which details Clarence Earl Gideon's struggle for justice and freedom. Gideon, an indigent man accused of a crime, demanded counsel be appointed to him but was denied. He took his case to the Supreme Court, arguing this violated his civil rights. Ultimately, the Court ruled in Gideon's favor, establishing the precedent that states must provide legal counsel to criminal defendants who cannot afford private attorneys. The book examines Gideon's case and its impact in establishing this important civil liberty. It demonstrates how even a poor individual can challenge unjust laws and effect meaningful change through the legal system.
Gideon's Trumpet: A Concise Review of a Landmark SCOTUS Case
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IP Subnet Design Project
Overview
Each student will create a detailed, unified technical design of
network services given the
scenario. The submission will be in a written format with a
length of at least 1000 words
(not counting diagrams, quoted passages, or other attachments)
and with at least one
detailed diagram created by the student. The assignment is
meant for students to enhance
their mastery of the material and to provide a creative and
realistic way in which to apply
knowledge from this course.
Scenario
You are a consultant being brought in by XUMUC to assist with
its merger with another
company.
Background
XUMUC has the WAN links in place to the new locations in the
Houston Region.
XUMUC currently has 2 other Regions San Francisco and
Denver. Originally, XUMUC
was only in one region (San Francisco). The previous
2. consultant did a poor job with the
integration resulting in a poor IP address scheme as a result
routing tables at the
summarization points and at the San Francisco Campus are very
large.
In addition, no VLAN structure was developed to isolate
broadcast traffic. There are 4
main departments in XUMC: sales, finance, human resources,
and research and
development. Also, there has been some concern that the WAN
transport was not able to
accommodate the network traffic. Finally, all addresses in the
network are statically
assigned resulting in high administration overhead when
changes are made. XUMC
would like this changed to lower administrative overhead.
IP ADDRESSING TABLE
Location
Number of IP
Addresses
Required Address Block Assigned
San Francisco 1290 172.16.0.0-172.16.7.255/21
Denver Region
Denver Campus 441
Remote Office 1 28
Remote Office 2 35
Houston Region
Houston Campus 329
Remote Office 3 21
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le (including summarized routes
for
the Denver and Houston regions),
o Conclusion
o Reference page
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document (e.g., on a
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“Gideon’s Trumpet” by Anthony Lewis
“Gideon’s Trumpet” by Anthony Lewis provides a detailed
overview of a long and difficult struggle of Clarence Earl
Gideon for justice and freedom. The depicted years showed no
need in defense lawyer, meaning that the due process might
come without an appointed attorney and the accused should
defend them. Thus, the key goal of the book is to present a long
road of the main hero to gain his civil rights for counseling.
Lewis is very effective and persuasive in depicting an appealing
process to the Supreme Court. The author has done a great job
of combing all the court cases into one book that was released
in 1964. The book is a quest of a person for justice as Gideon
claimed the sentence was wrong and court’s decision should be
revised. Gideon’s strong belief in justice has changed the world
11. and has given a hope for many accused in similar situations.
(Lewis 1989)
Lewis starts with discussing biographical peculiarities of
Clarence Earl Gideon, stating that he spent much time in prison.
In particular, Gideon’s life was divided into two parts: in prison
and out of prison. Despite being unable to lead a normal life,
Gideon wasn’t viewed as either professional criminal or severe
recidivist. Lewis writes about Gideon: “Those who had known
him, even the men who had arrested him and those who were
now his jailers, considered Gideon a perfectly harmless human
being, rather like able, but one tossed aside by life. Anyone
meeting him for the first time would be likely to regard him as
the most wretched of men”. (Lewis 1989) Nevertheless, Gideon
hasn’t
become a legislative citizen.
Gideon claimed that Florida’s law had treated him unfairly and,
thus, he felt responsible to seek for justice. He was willing to
gain fair freedom. In particular, his arrest dated to 1961 in
Panama City. When the trial started the due process, Gideon
refused to continue it, stating he had no appointed lawyer.
Lewis mentions with interest that “the defendant answered the
court’s question, but spoken in such low tones that it was not
audible”. (Lewis 1989) Gideon decently repeated his claim:
“You Honour: I request this Court to appoint counsel to
represent me in this trial”. (Lewis 1989) The court denied his
request, underlying that capital offence is the only ground for
appointing the lawyer to an accused. As a result, Gideon’s claim
was denied, but he strongly claimed his imprisonment was
illegal. That claim appeared to be revolutionary, stimulating a
number of future changes in legislative procedures.
Lewis effectively presents Gideon’s feelings and emotions, his
resentment. Gideon underlined he was a poor man and, thus, the
Court had to appoint an attorney for him. The positive moment
is that Gideon decided to struggle for his rights and prepared all
the case requirements for the Supreme Court. The preliminary
12. trial was set for ninety days. Further, Gideon sent copies of his
application to the lower Florida court, stressing that his rights
were violated –as appointed lawyer hasn’t represented his
interests in the Supreme Court. Gideon’s application to the
Supreme Court was a document of over five pages with a central
claim to move his case to the Supreme Court. Gideon succeeded
in finding the only existing hole between the state court and the
federal court. In particular, the decision of the state court can’t
be revised by the Supreme Court, but the hole shows that in
case the state court deals with federal issues, the Supreme Court
can revise the decisions of the state court.
Finally, the court noticed Gideon’s petition and Gideon
accomplished his goal. Lewis argues that proving a
constitutional right for counselling was a real victory and the
most important change. The year of 1963 appeared to be the
year of great change as the indigent defendants were provided
with
a lawyer during the due process. Clarence Earl Gideon
considered it the first victory as every civil society couldn’t
deprive a person his civil rights. A new trial was granted to
Gideon. He was excited about getting the first victory over the
Supreme Court, and during the new trial process his interests
were represented by the appointed lawyer. Gideon as acquitted
in his re-trial thanks to his attorney – the justice was set.
Lewis shows that seeking for justice and the ability of the
accused to reach justice are vitally important for every civil
society and for the accused as well. Evidence shows a number
of illegally and wrongly accused people. Lewis presents
“Gideon’s Trumpet” as the story of unexpected triumph of a
person over the court system. He shows that even the poorest
person is able to defend his position and his civil rights in the
Supreme Court. It seems unusual that a “little man” has dared to
struggle with legislative system and to win: “If an obscure
Florida convict named Clarence Earl Gideon had not sat down
in his prison cell to write a letter to the supreme Court…the
13. vast machinery of American law would have gone on
functioning undisturbed. But Gideon did write that letter, the
Court did look into his case…and the whole course of American
legal history has been changed”. (Lewis 1989)
Of course, Lewis leaves a reader with a number of questions and
some unexplained situations. Although Lewis has missed certain
information about the case, he has reached his primary goal - to
show that every accused, despite his social and financial
position, should defend his civil rights and right for freedom.
The book is very informative pointing step by step all the
court’s procedures. Thus, it can be recommended for law
students, who are interested in detailed legislative procedures,
and for lawyers, who seek to find the example of how a small
person changes legislation. Moreover, the book can be
recommended for everyone, who seeks for justice. Lewis offers
a great number of exact definitions and explanations of specific
court’s procedures that are necessary for every law student.
Lewis raises public awareness of the power they have.
Works Cited
Lewis, A. Gideon’s Trumpet. New York: Knopf Doubleday
Publishing Group, 1989.
14. “Gideon’s Trumpet” by Anthony Lewis
“Gideon’s Trumpet” by Anthony Lewis provides a detailed
overview of a long and difficult
struggle of Clarence Earl Gideon for justice and freedom.
The depicted years showed no need in
defense lawyer, meaning that the due process might come
without an appointed attorney and the
accused should defend them. Thus, the key goal of the book is
to present a long road of the main hero
to gain his civil rights for counseling. Lewis is very effective
and persuasive in depicting an appealing
process to the Supreme Court. The author has done a great job
of combing all the court cases into one
book that was released in 1964. The book is a quest of a person
for justice as Gideon claimed the
sentence was wrong and court’s decision should be
revised. Gideon’s strong belief in justice has
changed the world and has given a hope for many accused in
similar situations. (Lewis 1989)
Lewis starts with discussing biographical peculiarities of
Clarence Earl Gideon, stating that he
spent much time in prison. In particular, Gideon’s life was
divided into two parts: in prison and out of
prison. Despite being unable to lead a normal life, Gideon
15. wasn’t viewed as either professional
criminal or severe recidivist. Lewis writes about Gideon:
“Those who had known him, even the men
who had arrested him and those who were now his jailers,
considered Gideon a perfectly harmless
human being, rather like able, but one tossed aside by life.
Anyone meeting him for the first time would
be likely to regard him as the most wretched of men”. (Lewis
1989) Nevertheless, Gideon hasn’t
become a legislative citizen.
Gideon claimed that Florida’s law had treated him unfairly and,
thus, he felt responsible to seek
for justice. He was willing to gain fair freedom. In particular,
his arrest dated to 1961 in Panama City.
When the trial started the due process, Gideon refused to
continue it, stating he had no appointed
lawyer. Lewis mentions with interest that “the defendant
answered the court’s question, but spoken in
such low tones that it was not audible”. (Lewis 1989)
Gideon decently repeated his claim: “You