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!
-By 1995, as a result of cases like Scott v. Illinois, the range of indigent clients that you could represent as appointed counsel has expanded to include which of the following:

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In Scott v. Illinois (1979), the Supreme Court held that the Sixth Amendment's right to counsel applies to any criminal case where actual imprisonment is imposed. This means that even those facing a misdemeanor charge that could result in imprisonment are entitled to appointed counsel if they are unable to afford an attorney. Therefore, the correct choice is C, which includes anyone subjected to actual imprisonment for a misdemeanor charge, regardless of the length of the potential sentence.

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