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In light of Amendment VI, a 1963 Supreme Court decision in Gideon v. Wainwright specified

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That the Constitution required the states to provide defense attorneys to criminal defendants charged with serious offenses who cannot afford lawyers themselves. It began with the arresting case of Gideon.
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