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Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
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"If an obscure Florida convict named Clarence Earl Gideon had not sat down in his prison cell . . . to write a letter to the Supreme Court . . . the vast machinery of American law would have gone on functioning undisturbed. But Gideon did write that letter, the Court did look into his case . . . and the whole course of American legal history has been changed." —Robert F. Kennedy |
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Gideon v. Wainright the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case (March 18, 1963), established the right to counsel under the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
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