Sentences with phrase «denied access to counsel»

In real life, people represent usually themselves, either because they are denied access to counsel (which can be done in a criminal cases where the prosecutor waives the right to seek incarceration as a sentence), or because they are «crazy».

Not exact matches

«A diplomatic note was sent to the State Department in Washington, asking them to tell us what happened — how come consular access was refused and how come the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations was left aside, although Mr. Baloch had requested consular access and was denied access to legal counsel,» he said in an interview on Tuesday.

how come consular access was refused and how come the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations was left aside, although Mr. Baloch had requested consular access and was denied access to legal counsel,» he said in an interview on Tuesday.

They are so wedded to this connection that when President Trump reinstated the Mexico City Policy, which denies American aid to any NGO that provides, counsels, or refers for abortion, or that promotes a change in a country's laws towards permitting access to abortion, not a single NGO (as far as I am aware) agreed to sever its contraception work from its abortion advocacy.

CSW's Chief Executive Mervyn Thomas said, «It is unacceptable that these men have been denied access to their legal counsel ahead of the court hearing.

As a young lawyer defending poor inmates on Alabama's death row, Stevenson uncovers unconscionable flaws in the criminal justice system — racial bias, abuse of power, excessive punishment, denied access to legal counsel — concluding that «the opposite of poverty is not wealth; the opposite of poverty is justice.»

There are many stories of accused students being denied due process before being deprived of their rights, not being given access to legal counsel, and treated as guilty without proof.

In this case, the police did not provide an opportunity for a suspected drunk driver to access counsel and, in doing so, they denied him his right to counsel.

In fact I am building a case to put to the political establishment that the monopoly is unconstitutional because it denies most persons who want to access civil justice procedure the means to fairly prepare and present a case that will meet that of an adverse party that enjoys the advantage of professional counsel.