Critical Thinking:
In the year 2035, you graduate from law school at Emmett Brown Polytechnic University. The university's "Department of Space-Time Inquiry" decides to send you back to the year 1935 in its newly-created time machine. Unfortunately, the machine malfunctions and you enter a cycle that has you bouncing from the year 1935 to the year 1965 to the year 1995. At each stop, you land in a public defender's office. Your ability to return to your normal life in 2035 is dependent on your ability to successfully assist three indigent criminal defendants-one at each of your time travel stops. If you can accomplish this task, the cycle of time travel will be broken. Thankfully, your legal education has afforded you an exceptional knowledge of case law related to the "right to counsel"-and this will come in handy!
-At your first stop, in the year 1935, a judge could appoint you to serve as a counsel for an indigent defendant if which of the following criteria is met:

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At this point in time, the Supreme Court has not yet addressed the issue of the right to counsel, so option D is incorrect. Option A is also incorrect because in 1935, the right to counsel for misdemeanor charges had not been established yet. The right to counsel was only established for felony cases carrying the possibility of the death penalty or life imprisonment, as stated in option C.

Critical Thinking: in the Year 2035, You Graduate from Law School at School