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> Powell v. Alabama (1932) ordered states for the first time to provide law yers for indigent defendants in capital cases. Although Ozie Powell, 16, and six other Negro youths, who came to be known as the "Scottsboro Boys," had no legal aid, they had been sentenced to death for allegedly...
> Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) overruled Betts and fully extended the right to counsel in all felony trials. A rare winner, Florida Indigent Clarence Gideon was later retried and found innocent of attempted burglary.
The House Ways and Means Committee had haggled for weeks over three rival schemes dealing with medical care for the aged: 1) The Administration's medicare program aimed at compulsory hospital insurance through social security; 2) a Republican alternative proposing a federally assisted voluntary protection system, covering both hospitals...
> A broadening of Kerr-Mills to grant federal-state medical help not only to indigent people 65 or older, as at present, but also to certain other needy people regardless of age-those blind and disabled, members of indigent families, and homeless children. They would receive a full range of...
* A phenomenon comparable to the effect of 1963's Gideon v. Wainwright, which led to the retrial and acquittal of Florida Indigent Clarence Earl Gideon and gave all defendants the right to counsel in state criminal trials. In Florida alone, 5,554 previously convicted prisoners have since petitioned for...