Warren Court Era Research Paper

The Warren Court Era was the name that described the Supreme Court of the United States from 1953 to 1969 when Chief Justice Earl Warren served. The Warren Court Era had many court cases that changed what history had originally started. Cases regarding civil rights and civil liberties were decided under Chief Justice Earl Warren and impacted the states and the people in many different ways.

On May 17, 1954 it was decided in a unanimous decision through the United States Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas that there would be no more racial segregation in schools. The racial segregation that was currently taking place was found to be a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. In years before that, it was decided in

This landmark case had a major impact on the beginning of the American civil rights movement. http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/brown-v-board-of-education-of-topeka. Brown v. Board of Education.

Another landmark case that was decided under Chief Justice Earl Warren was Miranda v. Arizona on June 13, 1966. This Supreme Court’s decision addressed four different cases involving custodial interrogations. The four cases were Miranda v. Arizona, Vignera v. New York, Westover v. United States, and California v. Stewart. The defendant in each of these cases were questioned by authorities and not given full and effective warning of their rights at the onset of the interrogation process. The defendants were held and not given the ability to leave at any time during the questioning and interrogation. In three of the

Wainwright was decided on March 18, 1963. Clarence Earl Gideon was arrested in 1961 and charged with breaking and entering into a pool hall and stealing money from vending machines. At trial, he requested a lawyer to represent him as he could not afford one himself. He was informed by a Florida judge that the state only provided counsel and representation to indigent defendants who were charged with crimes that might result in the death penalty if found guilty. After he was found guilty and sentenced to five years in prison, he filed a habeas corpus petition to the Florida Supreme Court. He claimed that his conviction was unconstitutional because he lacked a defense attorney at trial. The Florida Supreme Court denied his petition and he followed with appealing his case to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Unites States Supreme Court ruled that his conviction was unconstitutional because he was denied an attorney at trial. In a unanimous decision the Court decided that the Sixth Amendment required states to provide attorney representation to any indigent criminal defendant charged with a felony. Before this case the Court only interpreted the Sixth Amendment as requiring the state to provide council in capital trials. After this case the Court ruled that the not only the federal government but also states are bound to the Sixth Amendment because the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause applies the key provisions of the Bill of Rights against the states. The Court