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Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled that the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution requires U.S. states to provide attorneys to criminal defendants who are unable to afford their own.
Iowa is confronting another problem in indigent defense: The state’s roster of contract attorneys to fill in the gaps in public defense has shrunk by half in the past decade. Lawyers say the ...
Though all defendants have been appointed an attorney, the court has had to hold that process off for up to 30 days for out-of-custody defendants in order to stay under the caseload limit, said ...
[22] [45] For instance, studies showed that court appointed lawyers had clients with imprisonment times eight months longer, on average, to the clients who had public defenders. [22] The controversy arises from results of Supreme Court Cases such as Strickland v.
Low pay, big caseloads and red tape are causing lawyers to drop off the state's list of court-appointed attorneys. Are those who remain up to the job? Court-appointed lawyers are a constitutional ...
A Marsden motion is the only means by which a criminal defendant can fire a court-appointed attorney or communicate directly with a judge in a California state court. [1] It is based on a defendant's claim that the attorney is providing ineffective assistance or has a conflict with the defendant.
The Iowa Supreme Court is being asked to consider, again, if state courts can bill poor defendants for their court-appointed lawyers, even when they're acquitted or the charges against them are ...
On December 7, 2006, the George W. Bush administration's Department of Justice ordered the midterm dismissal of seven United States attorneys. [1] Congressional investigations focused on whether the Department of Justice and the White House were using the U.S. attorney positions for political advantage.