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Chamberlain Press
March 2015
On Sale: March 3, 2015
563 pages ISBN: 099083980X EAN: 9780990839804 Kindle: 099083980X Paperback / e-Book
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Historical
Set amidst the tumultuous and transformative 1960s,
Gideon's Children tells the fascinating story of the
idealistic young men and women who staffed the newly
formed and expanded Public Defender Offices after the
Supreme Court's momentous 1963 decision that mandated the
right to counsel when charged with a crime. Facing
virulent bias, they summoned a warrior spirit, and like
Rocky in the courtroom, bravely led a revolution within
the Criminal Justice System as part of the greater Civil
Rights Movement.
With the spotlight focused on five young Public Defenders
fiercely battling prosecutors, cops, and judges within
the raw environment of murder, rape, robbery, and drugs,
as the intense drama unfolds, the novel weaves together
the threads that form its essential lesson: That the
power of the State is enormous, and that the only true
protection against governmental abuse of power is the
individual's supremely valuable constitutional rights!
Increasingly relevant today in view of the 1984-like
issues arising under the Patriot Act and highly invasive
governmental spying, this lesson reminds that the more
things change, the more they stay the same, as further
evidenced by the disproportionate share of young black
men in our prisons, and others killed for walking and
driving while black.
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