Fifty Years of Defiance and Resistance After Gideon v. Wainwright

(Please review the film Gideon's Trumpet and read 50 Years After Gideon)

1. In one complete sentence, state the author's main argument.

2. When the author refers to the promise of Gideon v. Wainwright, to what is he referring?

3. The author states that the system is "one-sided". Explain to what is he referring?

4. Explain what the author means by "adversarial" system of justice?

5. The author says that the system gives defense counsel the "presumption of competence". To what is the author referring?