Understand the right to the assistance of counsel

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1. How does the US Supreme Court currently understand the right to "the assistance of counsel"? Which defendants have this right and which do not? Use both the text and Gideon v Wainwright for these questions.

2. consider Strickland's claim that he had ineffective counsel. Do you agree with him? Or, do you agree with the Court that Strickland's lawyer was "within the range of competence" and therefore Strickland's 6th Amendment rights were not violated? Doesn't the fact that Strickland was sentenced to death show that he had ineffective counsel? After all, the outcomes for a defendant couldn't be any worse...

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