Cat lovers around the globe are thankful to Illinois authorities, who may just have prevented the perfect murder, saved the life of a presumed-innocent feline and convicted a budding criminal mastermind in the process.

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Thomas Lowe, an attorney from Eagan, Minn., had an affair, which won’t help him win any awards for good character, but is not illegal. The affair, however, was with a woman he had known for many years that he was representing in a divorce case, whom he billed for the time he spent sexing her up.

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On June 3, 1961, a robbery at a Fla. pool hall resulted in the arrest of small-time criminal Clarence Gideon, who was too poor to afford a lawyer. Forced to represent himself, Gideon received the maximum sentence, which gave him plenty of time to study America’s laws, and file a criminal case that affected our entire legal system and caused the release of thousands of convicts.

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