Feds refuse to support historic Gideon v. Wainwright decision
                                
                                
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                                    Fifty years ago, a letter from a petty thief inspired the US Supreme Court to grant all criminal suspects the right to legal counsel—but today that right is effectively ebbing away, writes Andrew Cohen in  The Atlantic . The thief was Clarence Gideon, and his case became the landmark Supreme...