United States of America Ex Rel. Charles Singleton v. Joseph I. Woods, Sheriff of Cook County

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• determining that the failure to advise an indigent defendant of his right to court-appointed counsel on appeal violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and the Sixth Amendment right to counsel
• in case involving misdemeanant sentenced to 1-year jail term, held that trial judge had constitutional duty to inform convicted indigent defendant of right of appeal

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