Year: 1963
Result: 9-0 Gideon won
Constitutional Issue: 6th amendment
Right or Liberty: Liberty
Significance: If this case hadn't have happened, people who could not afford representation wouldn't have be able to receive it.
Quote: "The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and petitioner was sentenced to serve five years in the state prison. Later, petitioner filed in the Florida Supreme Court this habeas corpus petition attacking his conviction and sentence on the ground that the trial court's refusal to appoint counsel for him denied him rights "guaranteed by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights by the United States Government."
Summary: Poor people have rights to counsel
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