In the 1960s, Clarence Earl Gideon was denied a court-appointed lawyer to represent him against felony charges in a Florida
courtroom. State law said that an attorney would only be appointed to poor defendants in capital cases. In the Supreme Court case
Gideon v. Wainwright, the justices ruled that the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protected Gideon's right to be
represented by an attorney under what Amendment?
A)
Fourth Amendment
B)
Fifth Amendment
Sixth Amendment
D)
Eighth Amendment
