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A criminal defendant cannot simply fire a court-appointed attorney. The trial judge has discretion whether or not to appoint new counsel on request of the defendant. A Marsden motion is a unique means by which a criminal defendant can communicate with the court. A criminal defendant who is represented by counsel can only communicate with the ...
Britney Spears’ court-appointed attorney, Samuel Ingham III, will resign from the pop star’s conservatorship case. Ingham filed paperwork on Tuesday, asking the Los Angeles Superior Court to ...
Beard, the Supreme Court faulted the defendant's lawyer for not reviewing a file that the attorney knew would be used by the prosecution in the sentencing phase of the trial. [17] In Glover v. United States, a lawyer was held to be ineffective when he failed to object to the judge's miscalculation of the defendant's sentence. [18] In Hinton v.
Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), was a United States Supreme Court case in which a court-appointed attorney filed a motion to withdraw from the appeal of a criminal case because of his belief that any grounds for appeal were frivolous.
The district attorney's office filed charges in just 47% of the misdemeanor cases it was presented last year, down from 72% in 2020, then-Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey's final year in office.
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 ...
Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806 (1975), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that criminal defendants have a constitutional right to refuse counsel and represent themselves in state criminal proceedings.
When he was in the legislature, he wrote California's capital punishment law. [18] As a candidate for re-election, in 1986 he opposed the retention election of three Brown-appointed justices of the Supreme Court of California due to their consistent opposition to the death penalty in any and all circumstances.