“The right of one charged with crime to counsel may not be deemed fundamental and essential to fair trials in some countries, but it is in ours.”
Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 US 335 (1963).
Created in the wake of the 1963 US Supreme Court ruling in Gideon, the Colorado State Public Defender system has a long history of providing excellent representation to persons accused in criminal cases when they cannot afford to hire counsel.