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I need to know what the defense asked prosecution witnesses during Gideon's second case. Not the case in the Supreme Court that ruling that all people needed council, but the second case of trying to prove Mr. Gideons innocence. Any website referenced would be much appreciated. I really just need the questions that were asked, not the whole transcript.

2007-01-20 12:22:19 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government Law & Ethics

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One of the witnesses against Gideon was a taxi driver. He testified that Gideon had telephoned him around 2:00 a.m. and asked to be picked up on a corner outside the pool room, which had been burgled. The prosecutor asked: "Did Mr. Gideon say anything when he got in the cab?" The taxi driver answered: "Yes. He said, 'Don't tell anybody you picked me up.'"At the first trial Gideon, representing himself, asked no questions on cross-examination, leaving that damaging testimony untouched. But the second trial, as I watched its filmed recreation, was different.

The lawyer who was appointed at Gideon's request to represent him, Fred Turner, was played by a skillful character actor, Lane Smith. After the taxi driver quoted Gideon's apparently incriminating statement as he got in the cab, Lane Smith asked, "Had he ever said that to you before?" The taxi driver answered: "Oh yes. He said that to me every time I picked him up." "Why?" "I think it was some kind of woman trouble." And Lane Smith, ad-libbing, walked over to the six-man jury, winked and said, "Well, we all know about that."

2007-01-20 12:45:07 · answer #1 · answered by jurydoc 7 · 0 0

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2016-09-07 22:47:38 · answer #2 · answered by gennaria 4 · 0 0

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