This Supreme Court decision ruled that states are required to provide a lawyer for someone who cannot afford one. Name that basic right.

Gideon was denied court-appointed counsel because his accused crime was not a capital case. The Supreme Court ruled that the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of a right to assistance of counsel applies to criminal defendants in state court by way of the Fourteenth Amendment. The title of a 2013 documentary about public defenders in the South paid tribute to this case.

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