Effective assistance of counsel Archives

24 Jun

Criminal lawyers must not misadvise on immigration risks

On June 23, 2017, the Supreme Court expanded upon Padilla, by confirming that it is ineffective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment for a criminal lawyer to misadvise his or her client that a particular conviction or sentence will not carry adverse immigration consequences. Jae...

2017 / Criminal Defense

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23 Feb

Capital punishment- SCOTUS denies relief on lethal injection, & then finds ineffective counsel on race-based evidence

example along with the constant execution machines of China, Iran and Saudi Arabia. In all likelihood, Trump's Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch will help allow the nation's death penalty machine to proceed virtually full speed ahead. This week, the Supreme Court denied relief to a...

2017 / Constitutional Law / Criminal Defense

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09 Oct

Beware the GOP for attacking the right to effective criminal defense counsel

Does the GOP really think that the mentality and sensitivities of the voting population is so low that the GOP will on balance gain more Trump votes than it loses -- and gain more people sympathetic to the GOP than the party alienates -- over...

2016 / Criminal Defense