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Houppert, Karen
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Fiction
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New Press, The
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English
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On March 18, 1963, in one of its most significant legal decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in _Gideon v. Wainwright_ that all defendants facing significant jail time have the constitutional right to a free attorney if they cannot afford their own. Fifty years later, 80 percent of cr