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22 Apr 2008, 8:55 am
During the hearings leading to the retroactive amendment, federal defenders, including myself, provided testimony before, during, and after the Sentencing Commission retroactivity hearings emphasizing the importance of counsel in assuring smooth administration and fair implementation of the amendment. [read post]
19 Jul 2008, 5:06 am
In an update for the Cato Institute of a 2005 article (overview leads to PDF-format article), Washington attorney N. [read post]
14 Jan 2014, 7:32 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The average bail for represented defendants who did not qualify for personal bond was $500 less than the average bail set for defendants who didn’t have defense counsel. [read post]
3 Jul 2009, 2:23 pm
Practically speaking, in the criminal courtrooms of Florida, defendants continue to come before the bench and announce themselves as unable to pay for legal counsel on their own. [read post]
1 Mar 2011, 9:00 pm
 Although I did not handle the appeal, I was lead defense counsel (representing the Westboro Baptist Church and its pastor Fred Phelps) in this case’s 2007 over-weeklong trial in Baltimore before U.S. [read post]
15 Apr 2020, 11:27 pm by The Clinton Law Firm
First, some claims were dismissed because the lead plaintiff clearly consented to the transaction. [read post]
5 Dec 2017, 4:00 am by John Rubin
But, the credit for this edition belongs to David Andrews, who took over as lead author after the first edition. [read post]
8 Aug 2012, 6:00 am by Wystan M. Ackerman
 Junior lawyers should not hold back in expressing their thoughts for fear that they will offend a senior lawyer, and the lawyer who took the lead should try to be critical of his or her own work. [read post]
11 May 2022, 9:03 am by Liel Sterling
Black individuals account for nearly 33 percent of all eviction filing defendants, despite comprising only roughly 20 percent of all adult renters. [read post]
16 Jul 2014, 7:54 pm
No particular set of detailed rules for counsel's conduct can satisfactorily take account of the variety of circumstances faced by defense counsel or the range of legitimate decisions regarding how best to represent a criminal defendant. [read post]
21 Mar 2012, 1:12 pm by Cynthia Alkon
The NY Times reported on Justice Scalia’s apparently unusual move of reading his dissent from the bench and the concern that these cases will lead defendants to “flood” the courts with appeals about their plea bargains. [read post]
28 Mar 2007, 12:13 am
And: Lawsuits against states regarding funding for their public defense systems arepending in Michigan and Louisiana, but the problems are spread well beyondtheir borders, said Malia Brink, indigent defense counsel for theWashington-based National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.But the lawsuits, as well as the recent exonerations of innocent people, mayfinally lead to some results, she said. [read post]
11 Nov 2008, 9:39 am
“Four leading Queen’s Counsel have made an unprecedented defence of the judge accused by newspaper chiefs of singlehandedly creating a privacy law. [read post]
17 Jun 2015, 7:45 am by Rahul Bhagnari
"Butch" Otter acknowledged that "the courts have made it clear that our current method of providing legal counsel for indigent criminal defendants does not pass constitutional muster. [read post]
2 Sep 2018, 8:39 pm by Jon Katz
Virginia criminal lawyer on the importance of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel I do not agree with the idea that a person who commits a crime will simply need to live with all consequences of their actions, including difficulties affording a lawyer. [read post]