OTHERWISE: Anthony Lewis, Who Transformed Coverage of the Supreme Court, Dies at 85 - NYTimes.com

OTHERWISE: Anthony Lewis, Who Transformed Coverage of the Supreme Court, Dies at 85 - NYTimes.com:
ifty years ago the United States Supreme Court announced in Gideon v. Wainwright that the Sixth Amendment right to the assistance of counsel is so essential to a fair trial that government must provide a lawyer to a defendant who cannot afford one.

No one did more to celebrate the importance of the decision than did Times Supreme Court reporter and columnist Anthony Lewis, who died yesterday.


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