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States must pay for public defenders as a result for which us supreme court case?

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gideon v wainwright 1963

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In 1963, in Gideon v. Wainwright, the Supreme Court unanimously decided that states are required to provide counsel in criminal cases to represent defendants who can't afford to hire an attorney.
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