March 18, 1963 (, mao February 23), the United States Court of provisions of the poor a lawsuit must have a lawyer. In 18,

1963 the U.S. Supreme Court held that states must provide free legal services for the poor of litigation.
Clarence - E Erli - Gideon's case raised the issue. He was accused of secretly broke into a material warehouse is in jail in Florida. During the trial, he requested lawyers defense, but the court refused. The Supreme Court of the new provisions, the most important one of the sittings of the overturned a decision of the Supreme Court in 1942, that the United States Constitution provides that only capital offense or special environment, such as the defendant is illiterate, in order to allow for the accused lawyer.