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Plea colloquy. A plea colloquy, in United States criminal procedure, is a conversation between a judge and a criminal defendant who has been sworn under oath, which must occur when the defendant enters a guilty plea in court in order for the plea to be valid. [1] The United States Supreme Court has crafted a doctrine which requires the court to ...
Colloquy (law) In law, a colloquy is a routine, highly formalized conversation. [1] Conversations among the judge and lawyers (as opposed to testimony under oath) are colloquies. The term may be applied to the conversation that takes place when a defendant enters into a plea bargain and the judge is supposed to verify that the defendant ...
Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), was a landmark Supreme Court case that established the standard for determining when a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to counsel is violated by that counsel's inadequate performance. The decision was a compromise by the majority in which the varying "tests for ineffective performance of ...
In August 2007, Galin Frye was arrested and charged with driving without a license for the third time, making it a felony in Missouri.The prosecutor in the case sent Frye's attorney two plea offers; one to recommend a three-year sentence with Frye serving only ten days in jail if he pleaded guilty to the felony, and the second to reduce the felony to a misdemeanor, and Frye to serve 90 days in ...
A criminal defendant in a state proceeding has a constitutional right to knowingly refuse the aid of an attorney. 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.
VI. Iowa v. Tovar, 541 U.S. 77 (2004), [1] was a unanimous decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that clarified how well-informed a defendant had to be to waive their right to counsel under the Sixth Amendment. [2] The defendant in this case had waived his right to counsel and pled guilty to drunk driving, and then had been ...
Former Attorney General Eric Holder slammed “political hacks” in Congress for blocking a trial of accused 9/11 terrorists who just took a plea deal.
Pro se legal representation (/ ˌproʊˈsiː / or / ˌproʊˈseɪ /) means to argue on one's own behalf in a legal proceeding, as a defendant or plaintiff in civil cases, or a defendant in criminal cases, rather than have representation from counsel or an attorney. The term pro se comes from Latin pro se, meaning "for oneself" or "on behalf of ...