The French provided attorneys for indigent defendants more than ______ years before the United States did.

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The French provided attorneys for indigent defendants 50 years before the United States did. This is based on the historical fact that France established the principle of the right to counsel in criminal cases in 1810, while the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright in 1963 that states must provide attorneys for defendants who are indigent.

The French Provided Attorneys for Indigent Defendants More Than ______