Kylah PrestonM. DietrichEconomic, period 508 May 2014Gideon v. WainwrightThe political and economic consequence of the Gideon v. Wainwright decision was, it extended the 6th Amendment to the 14th Amendment to apply to the state. It also gives defendants in criminal court the right to counsel in situations where they cannot afford to hire an attorney. Clarence Earl Gideon was a poorly educated man who ran away from home while he was in college. He spent a lot of time wandering through life, going in and out of prisons for non-violent crimes. The case Gideon v. Wainwright gave poor defendants the right to have a court-appointed attorney. The impact of the case has been enormous for defendants with little money that, in the past, might have been lost at trial without the help of an attorney. Clarence Earl Gideon was born in Missouri on August 30, 1910. He was a man with an 8th grade education. , who ran away from home. At the age of sixteen, he began committing petty crimes and began getting into trouble with the law. "Gideon spent a year in a reformatting...