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 ...

public trial.... The right to a public trial in the Sixth Amendment is deeply rooted in Anglo-American history, tradition, and values. It reflects, among other things, the Founders’ hostility ...

The attorney argues the prosecutors' ability peruse what the defendant thought was privileged information amounts to a violation of the Sixth Amendment.

"At one point, there were a few people — and maybe a dozen people — who were going without counsel entirely ... Judge rules Maine denied 6th Amendment rights to low-income defendants ...