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Who was Clarence Gideon and what was his connection to the Sixth Amendment?

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Clarence Gideon was a corrections director and his connect to the Sixth Amendment was the right to counsel is a fundamental right applied to the states via the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution's due process clause, and requires that indigent criminal defendants be provided counsel at trial.

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