What was the court’s majority opinion in gideon v. wainwright?

The court unanimously ruled that the Florida state law providing legal counsel only for capital crimes was unconstitutional. This ruling also overturned a previous decision (Betts v. Brady, 1942), which had established the precedent that counsel would not be provided to poor defendants who were being tried at a state level.

The court opinion (written by Justice Black) states: “We think the Court in Betts was wrong, however, in concluding that the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of counsel is not one of these fundamental rights.”

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