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According to the Supreme Court in Powell v. Alabama, the famous "Scottsboro Case" of 1932 involving several black youths accused of raping two white girls on a train,:


A) the entire Bill of Rights applies to state criminal procedure.
B) the due process clause requires states to follow all of the federal government's rules of criminal procedure.
C) all criminal defendants are entitled to a lawyer in every criminal case free of charge.
D) in the severe circumstances of this case-young, ignorant, illiterate defendants facing the death penalty in a hostile environment far from their family and friends-the state was required under the federal Constitution to provide counsel for the defendants.

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