Orange County Superior Court
By Pat Alston
Daily Journal Staff Writer
FULLERTON - Max De Liema was a student at the UC Santa Barbara in the mid-1960s when an inspirational professor introduced him to the story of an indigent drifter convicted a few years earlier of stealing a handful of change and a few bottles of beer from a Florida pool hall.
His name was Clarence Earl Gideon, a man with only an eighth-... (continued)
Daily Journal Staff Writer
FULLERTON - Max De Liema was a student at the UC Santa Barbara in the mid-1960s when an inspirational professor introduced him to the story of an indigent drifter convicted a few years earlier of stealing a handful of change and a few bottles of beer from a Florida pool hall.
His name was Clarence Earl Gideon, a man with only an eighth-... (continued)