Is Betts v. Brady still good law?

316 U.S. 455 (1942)

✗ Has been overruled

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Betts (no automatic right to appointed counsel in state felony cases) was overruled by Gideon v. Wainwright (1963).

Later authority

Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963)overruled

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