Summary Of Gideon's Trumpet

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Gideon’s Trumpet Summary
Gideon’s Trumpet is about a court case. Gideon’s Trumpet is important because he went on trial without a lawyer. The case was about Gideon breaking into the pool room. Gideon was guilty and put in jail for two years. He started thinking of what he could do to get on trial again, so he wrote a letter to the Supreme Court to notify them that he was not guilty and didn’t have money for a lawyer. They wrote back to Gideon back the letters didn’t say much. Later Gideon received a call, the call let him know the he could go on trial again and that he had a lawyer. Gideon was not only worried about him self he was worried about the other prisoners, he asked would they go on trial again too. His letter helped a lot of people

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