The modern law interpreting the Right to Counsel Clause really begins with the 1963 decision in Gideon v. Wainwright, holding that the Fourteenth Amendment incorporates Sixth Amendment’s ...

Mueller, a former public defender, eventually took the case and mostly won at trial. A jury acquitted Thompson of the felony ...

The ACLU has asserted that this group’s Sixth Amendment right to counsel is violated when the state is unable to appoint a lawyer to represent them. The court rightly ruled that the state is in ...

Under the Sixth Amendment, protections are in place to have legal counsel at all criminal proceedings. For any undocumented immigrants facing deportation, that right to representation extends ...