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Are ones that the court made very unpopular decisions. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of different people who help stuck together because they believe in a rule of law. Good evening and welcome to landmark cases. Tonights case is gideon versus wayne. Wreck 55 years ago this month, the Supreme Court ruled that the right to counsel was so fundamental to our dove governmental system. That states must provide lawyers for defendants who cannot afford. One the hero of tonights story is a bit of an unlikely. One Clarence Gideon was adrift her from florida was accused of breaking a pool. As we begin tonight, were gonna go to some historic video. You see the real mr. Gideon and the florida judge who sentenced to jail. They reenacted the case for cbs news documentary in 1965. Lets watch the next case on the ....
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