Sentences with phrase «counsel at critical stages»

It concluded that Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, a political rival to Urkaine's then - leader Viktor Yanukovych, was denied counsel at critical stages of her trial but her conviction was supported by evidence.

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The court said you can presume ineffectiveness if there were no counsel at all at a critical stage of the trial, or if there were a complete «breakdown in the adversarial process that would justify a pre-sumption» of an unreliable conviction.