February 17, 2017 — «The state public defender system in Louisiana is understaffed by 1,406 lawyers, according to an ABA study of their workloads.The study (PDF) found that 1,769 full - time public defenders are needed to provide reasonably
effective assistance of counsel in Louisiana, but the state only employs 363 full - time equivalent PDs.
Courts have come to differing conclusions regarding immigrants» rights to
effective assistance of counsel in cases where deportation is involved.
Not exact matches
Perhaps
in some instances, providing ineffective
assistance of counsel provides the accused with the most
effective defense against a death sentence.
coerced confessions, [Footnote 16] by the use
of perjured testimony known by the prosecution to be such, [Footnote 17] or without the
effective assistance of counsel, [Footnote 18] have also been held to be exertions
of state authority
in conflict with the fundamental rights protected by the Fourteenth Amendment.
In Poindexter, the 6th Circuit reversed the lower court's decision that the defendant was deprived
of effective assistance of counsel during his trial.
In principle, I agree that the plea stage is a critical stage where
effective assistance of counsel is paramount.
For example, just last term, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a defendant's constitutional right to
effective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment is so sacrosanct that violation
of the right is grounds for overturning a conviction, even
in the absence
of showing
of actual prejudice.
Rates like these compromise indigent defendants» constitutional rights to
effective assistance of counsel and a fair trial, argue a group
of court - appointed lawyers
in Philadelphia, who've filed suit for a pay increase
in federal court, according to this report.
As part
of what may be a multi-year, sea change
in the law
of lawyering, the SCOTUS issued two more opinions that extended the constitutional guarantee
of effective assistance of counsel to the plea bargaining stage
of criminal matters.
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