Word: lawyerless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time of the Gideon decision, four states in addition to Florida-Alabama, Mississippi and the two Carolinas -had no laws requiring counsel for indigent defendants except in capital cases. Since then, the legislatures in Alabama and North Carolina have passed measures to provide counsel for lawyerless defendants in all felony cases. Mississippi courts have adopted a policy of appointing counsel for defendants charged with felonies, and South Carolina judges no longer permit defendants without counsel to plead guilty. In all four states, prisoners have petitioned for review of their cases...
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