In a six to three decision, the Court found that Betts did not
have the right to be appointed counsel with Justice Hugo Black
emphatically dissenting.
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Betts v. Brady, 316 U.S. 455 (1942), was a landmark United
States Supreme Court case that denied counsel to indigent
defendants when prosecuted by a state. It was later famously
overruled by Gideon v. Wainright.