Sentences with phrase «counsel on all criminal cases»

That led a lot of people to believe... Gideon V. Wainwright was the case that provided a right to counsel on all criminal cases, and when people hear civil Gideon, they think, «Oh, you're just looking for the same thing on the civil side,» and we're not.

Not exact matches

«Based on the advice of counsel, I will assert my 5th Amendment rights in connection with all proceedings in this case due to the ongoing criminal investigation by the FBI and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York,» Cohen wrote in the filing in Los Angeles federal court.

Mayor Bill de Blasio today went on a tirade against claims that he and his allies participated in «willful and flagrant» violations of state election law in 2014 — and against the «motivations» of Cuomo - picked Board of Elections counsel who recommended bringing a criminal case against the mayor.

Nyame, who is standing trial for a 41 - count charge of criminal misappropriation of N1.64 bn state funds, had on January 18, 2017 through his counsel, Charles Edosomwan, SAN, urged the court to «hold that the testimony of prosecution witnesses have been so damaged and can't be relied on», and «the crucial elements are missing in this case».

At Neuberger & Partners LLP, in Toronto, our lawyers offer dependable and knowledgeable counsel based on decades of criminal defence experience in drug crimes cases.

I understand that the detainees» plight raises significant constitutional questions, but so too do the dozens of cases involving indigent criminals arrested on false warrants or deprived of effective assistance of counsel or forced to confess.

Without the knowledge of the plaintiff or her counsel, the defendant and accused in the case had shared the plaintiff's documents produced in the civil case with his criminal defence counsel, who then relied on these records at trial.

Enrico also works frequently with criminal counsels on white - collar crime cases and acts as counsel and arbitrator in arbitration proceedings.

The Joint Committee rejected the public defender model adopted in the United States on the basis that, for criminal cases, it was «wrong in principle that both prosecutor and defender are employed by the same master» and that the impersonal and bureaucratic nature of the public defender model made it impossible to exercise «the zeal and vigour which should be characteristic of defence counsel in every case.»

Even a very incomplete list gives an impression of the large number of significant opinions he has written: seminal administrative law cases such as Chevron v. NRDC and Massachusetts v. EPA, the intellectual property case Sony Corp v. Universal City Studios (which made clear that making individual videotapes of television programs did not constitute copyright infringement), important war on terror precedents such as Rasul v. Bush and Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, important criminal law cases such as Padilla v. Kentucky (holding that defense counsel must inform the defendant if a guilty plea carries a risk of deportation) and Atkins v. Virginia (which reversed precedent to hold it was unconstitutional to impose capital punishment on the mentally retarded), and of course Apprendi v. New Jersey (which revolutionized criminal sentencing by holding that the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial prohibited judges from enhancing criminal sentences beyond statutory maximums based on facts other than those decided by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt).

«The appellant maintains that, by its nature, a tax on criminal defence legal fees will, at some level, be prohibitive or at the very least act as an impediment to or will interfere with the right to counsel since the additional cost of the tax to an accused will interfere with the financial resources available to mount a defence to the charges brought against him or her,» wrote Tax Court of Canada Justice Brent Paris, summing up the firm's case.

Our office has direct experience in white collar crime cases in these criminal acts, both as defence counsels for people and companies who had some misunderstandings with authorities and on the side of victims of these criminal activities.

Today, as reported here by BuzzFeed News, «Rick Gates, a former Trump campaign aide and longtime associate of former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort, pleaded guilty on Friday in the criminal case brought by special counsel Robert Mueller's office.»

Alan Dial's practice focuses on white collar criminal cases, complex civil litigation, internal investigations and compliance counseling.

Requires all criminal and delinquency cases be «weighted» based on case type to establish budgetary amounts that may be appropriated to the committee for public counsel services to pay for public defenders.

Senior Counsel who take on a «brief», or case, currently receive a fee of $ 7,919 for a murder case in the Central Criminal Court.

He has been lead counsel on a number of precedent - setting cases and has made his mark in areas as diverse as personal injury litigation, medical malpractice, professional discipline, wrongful dismissal litigation and criminal law.

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We have long appreciated that the Crown disclosure documents from a criminal proceeding can not simply be shared with counsel in a subsequent civil case that is based on the same events and alleged wrongdoing.

«Typically, criminal defendants who assert that they have been represented by ineffective counsel do so after a conviction and on a case - by - case basis.

In this case, the Alberta College of Paramedics (the «College») required that paramedical technicians answer, on a registration renewal form for 2016, various questions regarding recent criminal activity, treatment or counselling for physical or mental health conditions, and drug and alcohol addiction.

Over the course of his career, Professor Brooks has exonerated many innocent clients and served as counsel on several high profile criminal cases (including representing former NFL player Brian Banks).

Previously, Chris worked in private practice in both Family Law and Criminal Defence and was counsel on one of the leading cases involving B.C.'s Child Protection Agency and a finding of Misfeasance in a Public Office, one of only a few cases in the country where such a finding has been made.

The case came before Justice H.A. Lamoureux and focused squarely on what criminal lawyers describe as «implementation duties» of police when effecting a person's right to counsel under section 10 (b) of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Alan Gold's Practitioners Criminal Code was developed to fill the niche for a new Criminal Code expressly written by and for defence counsel, that blends commentary with case summaries in a manner that enables defence counsel to pursue new lines of argument on behalf of an accused.

While the defendant is provided with counsel who can explain both the criminal justice process and the rights of the defendant, the victim or witness has no counterpart and is usually not even notified when the defendant is released on bail, the case is dismissed, a plea to a lesser charge is accepted, or a court date is changed.

Learned senior counsel submits that if such finding of forgery rendered by the learned arbitrator which amounts to a serious criminal::: Downloaded on - 13/05/2014 23:52:28::: Kvm 42/107 ARBP259.13 charge is not set aside, such award would be a decree of this Court and would be executed by the claimant by filing criminal proceedings against the respondent based on such perverse finding which are without jurisdiction, such award would be thus in conflict with public policy under Section 34 of the Act and even under the narrower ground of public policy while considering the objection to the enforcement of a foreign award as held by the SC in case of Shri Lal Mahal Ltd..