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Gideon Vs Wainwright Case
Have you ever got yourself into a really bad situation where you needed professional help? Some people get into a little bit of trouble where they need the legal help. There are many cases that went through the court systems that we don’t really even hear about because they're so small. These cases are the ones that don’t really matter. The cases that are bigger are the ones that people hear more about usually the little cases get pushed to the side and slid around to the back of the court cases and people normally never hear about those cases. Like the case in 1963 Gideon's Vs. Wainwright, many people haven’t heard about this case because it was so long ago and it wasn’t that big of a case.

Gideon’s VS. Wainwright is a case that happened on June 3, 1961 about a young man named Clarence Earl Gideon. The report says that between midnight and eight A.M there was a burglary that happened at the bay harbor pool room in Panama City, Florida. There was word that a lot of different things got broken that night and money
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Wainwright case that that everyone that ends up going to court has to be appointed a counsel to help defend themselves. People who can’t afford a counsel gets to get one through the state. They might not be the best person to help you though the case, but at least you get somebody to help you defined yourself during court. No matter how much money you have or don’t have you are required to have somebody no matter if you're the one who finds your counsel or if the supreme court finds the counsel for you. You are required to have one no matter what case it is or who it is against, even if they know you won’t come out free they are still inquired to give you a counsel. The impact that this court case made has help a thousand of people today win or lose cases. Hopefully many times it was helping them because your person you get for your counsel is suppose to make your case better and help you out not make it worse for

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