Sentences with phrase «defense counsel did»

Defense counsel did his job and tried to show my client how the good doctor didn't do anything wrong.

That he had the foresight to bring his laptop computer to court, and defense counsel did not, simply can not serve as a basis for judicial intervention in the name of «fairness» or maintaining «a level playing field.»

Not exact matches

«We have efficiency standards for cars, trucks, but we don't have one for airplanes,» said Annie Petsonk, international counsel for the Environmental Defense Fund.

He doesn't say a word, sitting stiff as a wire by the side of the defense counsel, and the daughters huddle next to each other in the front row, so pale and haggard that their much - ballyhooed beauty is, I'm afraid, purely conjecture.

Since he was involved with the founding and legal counsel to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, I think twisting his observation about internet conversations into a defense of what places like RC and Romm's blog do is a bit of distortion.

Specifically, he asks, «When you are a defense counsel in a civil case who discovers that a plaintiffs» claim is fraudulent, do you have a duty to disclose this to the trial court?»

Held: The Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require that no indigent criminal defendant be sentenced to a term of imprisonment unless the State has afforded him the right to assistance of appointed counsel in his defense, but do not require a state trial court to appoint counsel for a criminal defendant, such as petitioner, who is charged with a statutory offense for which imprisonment upon conviction is authorized but not imposed.

For example, I had launched my practice about two years before I attended a state bar annual meeting in California where I manned a booth for a while in the exhibit hall with some colleagues who do the same exact work that I do, the small group of us that are part of a trade association in California, the Association of Discipline Defense Counsel.

Second, throughout the entire time sheet, I did not once see an item such as «call to defense counsel to discuss discovery» or «meet and confer.»

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).

In this case, defense counsel for Mr. Mali accepted that the officer was entitled to enter onto Mr. Mali's property; however, when Mr. Mali informed the officer that he did not want to speak with him, this withdrew the implied invitation, and the officer then became a trespasser.

What we can do is hope that upon Kim's departure, a sense of civility and reason can return to dealings between defense counsel and state bar prosecutors.

Nor did I talk to local defense counsel to get a feel for the assistant district attorney I would be facing.

This is not the best option for reasons that should be obvious, though it is sometimes the choice of attorneys who do not have the financial means to hire dedicated ethics defense counsel and have a friend or colleague willing to take on the matter pro bono.

«How to keep outside counsel focused on your needs, not theirs Main Does «state secrets» defense whitewash plaintiff's complaints under Title VII?»

She is the co-author, Professional Malpractice and Economic Loss: Why Choice of Law Really Does Matter, 2011 and presenter at Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel 2011 Annual Meeting, and author of Privacy and the Freedom of Information Act, 27 Administrative Law Review 275, 1975, among others.

From the defense counsel's perspective, nothing can be done about this tactic.

Whether in big cities or small towns, defense counsel work to defend their clients and keep them out of incarceration while attorneys working for the prosecution do their best to prove guilt.

Don't just accept a guilty plea; get the best legal counsel possible with the help of a murder defense attorney at Lerner and Rowe Law Group.

... The fact that defense counsel may have made mistakes does not warrant imposing sanctions — particularly where the plaintiffs now have full access to the server imaging.

What We Do: In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that criminal defense attorneys have a Sixth Amendment duty to advise their clients about immigration consequences of their criminal cases, and that failure to do so is ineffective assistance of counseDo: In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that criminal defense attorneys have a Sixth Amendment duty to advise their clients about immigration consequences of their criminal cases, and that failure to do so is ineffective assistance of counsedo so is ineffective assistance of counsel.

1 For attempts to measure the effect of advocacy quality through other means, see, e.g., Banks Miller et al., Leveling the Odds: The Effect of Quality Legal Representation in Cases of Asymmetrical Capability, 49 Law & Soc» y Rev. 209 (2015)(finding that high quality representation evened the odds for asylum applicants and that asylum seekers fared better when unrepresented than when represented by a poor lawyer); Mitchell J. Frank & Dr. Osvaldo F. Morera, Professionalism and Advocacy at Trial — Real Jurors Speak in Detail About the Performance of Their Advocates, 64 Baylor L. Rev. 1, 38 (2012)(finding statistically significant correlations in criminal cases between jurors» perceptions of closing argument persuasiveness and jury verdict, and finding statistically significant correlations in civil cases between perceptions of defense counsel's closing argument persuasiveness and defense verdict); James M. Anderson & Paul Heaton, How Much Difference Does the Lawyer Make?

Our Programmatic Issue Coding is a scalpel for precisely dissecting defense productions to focus exclusively on the «hot documents,» so that plaintiffs» counsel does not waste valuable time reviewing unnecessary documentation.

We don't know how much pressure trial judges will exert on defense counsel....

Defendant finally argued the time records were incomplete / unreliable, but the appellate court dispatched this one by noting this factor was used to deny a requested lodestar enhancement by plaintiff's counsel such that the defense did get some traction on this argument, but traction already factored in by the lower court in reducing claimed fees.

Below, the parties presented conflicting declarations on the worth of the defense work efforts, with the lower court crediting the plaintiff's counsel's declaration that the worth of the unlawful detainer work by the defense was between $ 5,000 - 10,000 — especially with the plaintiff's attorney testifying he did U.D. trial work on a flat per - daily fee basis.

I have some reasons for thinking that defense counsel are not a panacea, even if present, to do with repeat players and informal norms: Malcolm Feeley's The Punishment is the Process is the locus classics for all of this.

After eight years as defense counsel for an insurance company, she moved to doing plaintiff's workers» comp about two years ago.

In criminal law, attorneys frequently report to us that the prosecution will do a data dump on defense counsel, effectively burying any exculpatory information in a sea of data.

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