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Article: GIDEON'S COUNSEL ANNIVERSARY SPOTLIGHTS RIGHT TO COURT-APPOINTED ATTORNEY.(P-I Focus)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- March 16, 2003
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Byline: ROBERT C. BORUCHOWITZ
Forty years ago this month, the U.S. Supreme Court announced one of the most important decisions in its history. Gideon vs. Wainwright established clearly the right of a poor person charged with a felony crime to have a lawyer paid for by the state. That right had been recognized only sporadically around the country.
Today, following other decisions in juvenile and misdemeanor cases, the right to an attorney is well established; it is even part of the standard recitation of rights so often seen on television shows. Unfortunately the right to counsel often is not fully implemented.
According to an argument in the ...