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 second stop, in the year 1965, the rules have changed as a result of which important Supreme Court case related to appointing counsel for indigent defendants:

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In 1963, the Supreme Court decided in Gideon v. Wainwright that the Sixth Amendment's right to counsel applies to defendants in state courts and that states have an obligation to provide counsel for criminal defendants who cannot afford their own attorneys. This landmark decision dramatically changed the landscape of the criminal justice system by ensuring that even those who cannot afford an attorney are entitled to legal representation. Therefore, in 1965, the year of the second stop, the important Supreme Court case related to appointing counsel for indigent defendants would be Gideon v. Wainwright.

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