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The landmark Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright established the right to counsel for indigent criminal defendants under the Sixth Amendment. The Court unanimously ruled that states must provide attorneys to defendants who cannot afford their own lawyers. This overturned an earlier decision and extended the right to counsel, previously only applicable to federal cases, to apply to states as well through the Fourteenth Amendment. As a result of this ruling, thousands of prisoners were freed after being p

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Arafat Ibnul Bashar

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