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How You Lost Your Right to Free Legal Counsel

Feds refuse to support historic Gideon v. Wainwright decision

(Newser) - Fifty years ago, a letter from a petty thief inspired the US Supreme Court to grant all criminal suspects the right to legal counsel—but today that right is effectively ebbing away, writes Andrew Cohen in The Atlantic . The thief was Clarence Gideon, and his case became the landmark Supreme...

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