Objective:
Warm-up:
- What made Gideon different from the thousands of other criminal defendants who had been convicted without a criminal attorney to represent them?
- Why might the government not want to give lawyers to every single person accused of any crime or of breaking any law, no matter how minor? What problems could arise if the government guaranteed a lawyer to any person accused of any crime?
- How do you think the government should pay for the criminal lawyers that will represent people free of charge?
- What do you think makes a good lawyer? If you can’t afford a lawyer, do you think the government should be required to give you a good lawyer or any lawyer?
Homework:
Answer Questions 1-9
Vocabulary through de facto segregation