The defense team in the Chandra Levy murder case has petitioned a D.C. Superior Court judge to overturn the guilty verdict for Ingmar Guandique. The defense argues that prosecutors illegally withheld evidence regarding a witness from them during the murder trial in 2010.

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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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