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The important thing of the gideon v. wade case was that gideon spent two years in jail for something he did not do. He is supposed to have a lawyer for the case but when he asked they didn 't give him one. he read books about it in the library and soon wrote a letter to the people saying he did not have a lawyer and that he should be able to redo the case in court. they had meetings about it trying to make a decision. they later replied to him saying they would let him have a retrial with a lawyer. the lawyer gathered the facts and then presented them in court. They found gideon not guilty and all charges were

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