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in argersinger vs hamlin the united states supreme court held that under the sixth amendment a criminal defendant convicted of a misdemeanor offense can't be punished with any imprisonment if the defendant lacked the assistance of counsel in so holding the court noted that its decision didn't address the issue of whether the sixth amendment guarantees the right to counsel to a misdemeanorant who receives no incarceration the supreme court addressed that unresolved issue in scott versus illinois aubry scott shoplifted merchandise worth around 14 he was arrested and charged in state court with the misdemeanor offense of shoplifting merchandise valued at less than 150 state law authorized maximum punishment of one year in jail but also afforded trial judges the discretion to impose no incarceration and instead impose a fine of up to 500 at his bench trial scott wasn't represented by counsel and the trial judge never advised scott that he had a right to counsel the trial judge convicted sc