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AP U.S. Government 3.2 Civil Rights and Liberties. In Gideon v. Wainwright the Court held that what?

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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop du jour

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Brought to you by a fair trial where law of

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the carnies reign supreme in gideon v wainwright The court

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held that What And hear the potential answers All right

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What was gideon v wainwright all about All right And

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let's go All right It can't be a good feeling

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when one's been arrested and is facing legal charges Trust

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us We've watched a lot of courtroom dramas but even

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in those dark moments the constitution shines a light on

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our legal rights the ones provided by the fifth sixth

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and eighth amendments Well the fifth amendment among other things

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protects us from being a witness against ourselves when we're

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on trial The sixth amendment is all about the right

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to a speedy trial by jury Eighth amendment prohibits all

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that cruel and unusual punishment stuff Those amendments were with

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us from the get go So let's See what gideon

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v wainwright had tto add to the legal mix Did

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the supreme court holden gideon v wainwright that a african

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american defendants tend to receive the death sentence more frequently

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than white defendants No that was fermin v georgia which

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actually led to a suspension of all state death penalties

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for four years until fairer sentencing laws were addressed in

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greg v georgia that rules out a did gideon v

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wainwright provide that seat The states must provide poor defendants

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with a lawyer in on ly capital cases Ever hear

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of the scottsboro boys Well they were a group of

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nine black men accused of raping two white women and

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all but one of them were sentenced to death after

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some very quick one day trials even though their lawyer

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had almost no time to prepare Well the supreme court

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overturned those convictions in powell v alabama arguing that the

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state must appoint a lawyer for poor defendants when accused

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of a capital crime which means one where someone might

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be executed Right So we can drop all charges against

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c did the supreme court rule in gideon v wainwright

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that d all arrested persons are entitled to a reasonable

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bail Well actually protection from excessive bail dates all the

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way back to the eighth and then itself so we

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can get rid of it What about the idea that

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e arrested persons must be informed of their rights upon

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Arrest Remember miranda v arizona Yeah that's where the supreme

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court ruled that suspects under arrest must be informed of

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the right to an attorney and the right to remain

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silent basically all the rights we've gone over in this

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question So if he has the wrong rights for us

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that means that in gideon v wainwright the court held

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that beat the states must provide poor defendants with a

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lawyer in all cases taking things one step further than

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pal v alabama gideon v wainwright established the right to

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counsel for all cases In other words if we can't

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afford an attorney the state must provide us with one

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paid for by the public's tax dollars so that we

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can have a fair trial That makes be the correct

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answer The right to a free attorney in all trials

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was a huge step forward for protecting the rights of

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the accused But if our lawyers working for free well 00:03:01.128 --> [endTime] sometimes we uh we get what we pay for

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