Office of the Federal Public Defender, W.D. MI.

"Located prominently in our Defender Office is a quote from the 1963 landmark Supreme Court case of Gideon v. Wainwright that reads:...reason and reflection require us to recognize that in our adversary system of criminal justice, any person haled into court, who is too poor to hire a lawyer, cannot be assured a fair trial unless counsel is provided for him. This seems to us to be an obvious truth." Gideon v. Wainwright