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Johnson v. Zerbst 304 U.S. 458 (1938) was a United States Supreme Court case in which the petitioner Johnson had been convicted in federal court of feloniously possessing uttering and passing counterfeit money in a trial where he had not been represented by an attorney but instead by himself. Johnson filed for habeas corpus relief claiming that his Sixth Amendment right to counsel had been violated but he was denied by both a federal district court and the court of appeals.