Like Many Other Provisions of the Constitution, the Sixth Amendment

question 41

Multiple Choice

Like many other provisions of the Constitution, the Sixth Amendment has a different meaning today than it did when it was first ratified. In a landmark decision, the U.S. Supreme Court held that, based on the Sixth Amendment’s provision of right to counsel, indigent defendants charged with a felony are entitled to the services of a lawyer paid for by the government (Gideon v. Wainwright 1963) . Later, the Sixth Amendment right to counsel was extended to juvenile court proceedings as well (In re Gault 1967) . But as so often happens, answering one question raised several new ones.
-Which of the following issues did the court wrestle with following the Gideon decision?

• A)nonfelony criminal prosecutions
• B)stages of the criminal process.
• C)self-representation.
• D)The court wrestled with all of these issues following the Gideon decision.

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