Clarence Earl Gideon was arrested for breaking into a Florida pool with the intention to burglarize it, and the court refused to give him a court-appointed attorney, and he ended up losing and sentenced to five years imprisonment. However, he wrote a handwritten petition requesting the U.S. Supreme Court to accept his case on appeal and the Court found in Gideon's favor, overturning Betts v. Brady.
I personally do not like this one because this man clearly was guilty, but because the attorney was not given to him. It went against the constitution, but still, I find this not fair.
Gideon sent handwritten petition to Supreme Court for repeal
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