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Mississippi Says Poor Defendants Must Always Have a Lawyer. Few Courts Are Ready to Deliver.
(www.propublica.org)
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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I thought the 6th amendment covered this? Like, "the right to counsel" doesn't seem very vague. Mississippi became a state after the 6th amendment was added, shouldn't they have been doing this from day one?