she writes about a case that probably nobody recalls by the name strickland vs. washington that was a five-- decided in 1982 by the supreme court that the first time the court justice o'connor had to address the question of what it means under the sixth amendment to have a right to counsel other than a war buddy -- warm body it sitting next to with a law degree. in 1961 if you are charged with a serious crime you have to be appointed a lawyer and gideon is the case that once you to be a lawyer. you should read that book tedious trumpet which is a wonderful account of that case and how the supreme court took it. nobody can be tried unless you have a defense lawyer broker the critical question that came up in the wake of the idea and it is what kind tie-in of system we set up in hundreds of millions of cases not all of those reach corporation but we talk run a massive system which means most people need an appointed lawyer the question that came up almost immediately in the case of 56 whether the standards nemesis -- standards of the effectiveness of counsel that there were s