Directions: Answer the practice Free Response Question below. You may use resources and notes to answer this FRQ$.$ This assignment is worth $4$ points. Read the General Considerations so you understand how points are earned for each part of the FRQ$.$ Ensure you answer all parts in complete sentences. This assignment is worth $4$ points.

You will need to write this by hand, as usual, and use the scoring guideline attached below to give yourself a score. It is required that you highlight $($or underline, circle, etc.$)$ where you think you earned each point in your response.

Betts v$.$ Brady $(1942)$

In $1941,$ Smith Betts was arrested for robbery in the state of Maryland. Unable to afford a lawyer, he was denied a public defender by a judge and forced to represent himself. He was found guilty and given an eight$-$year sentence.

In the ensuing case, Betts v$.$ Brady $(1942),$ the Supreme Court ruled against Mr$.$ Betts, who claimed his constitutional right to a fair trial was denied. In a $6-3$ decision, the Court held that the right to counsel applied to only criminal cases in federal courts and that he did not have a right to counsel in a state court, except in death penalty cases.

Justice Black, in his dissenting opinion, reasoned, "This case can be determined by a resolution of a narrower question: whether, given the nature of the offense and the circumstances of his trial and conviction, this petitioner was denied the procedural protection which is his right under the federal Constitution. I think he was."