Fifity years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335, the state and federal justice systems still often fail to provide justice to poor criminal defendants, according to a panel hosted on March 18 by the New York County Lawyers’ Association at its lower Manhattan headquarters.
The discussion commemorated the anniversary of the 1963 decision, which held that all indigent defendants facing felony charges are entitled to court-appointed counsel. The ruling was later extended to all criminal offenses.
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