In the early years immediately following the adoption of the Sixth Amendment guaranteeing the right to counsel, courts interpreted that right to mean:
a. all defendants must receive counsel at government expense.
b. defendants have a right to counsel at trial provided they can afford one.
c. defendants do not have a right to counsel until the trial itself, but once trial begins all defendants must receive lawyers even if they cannot afford them.
d. only felony defendants are entitled to lawyers at government expense.
b
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