BOTTOM LINE: Where the defendant argued he received ineffective assistance of counsel during his plea hearing, because his counsel did not object to a firearm enhancement applied by the district court ...

No Black defendant in a murder case should be represented by a lawyer affiliated with the KKK without their knowledge and ...

Jonathan I. Edelstein, an attorney in private practice, writes that the federal and New York ineffective assistance of counsel procedural schemes can be readily contrasted. The former created a simple ...

Kaitlyn Conley was tried twice in 2017 for second-degree murder for the July 2015 poisoning death of her employer, Whitesboro chiropractor Mary Yoder. Fourth Department in Rochester agrees with Conley ...

A Colorado man convicted of a drug crime won an appeal to revive his ineffective assistance of counsel claim after the Tenth ...

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In Part Two of their two-part series, Cynthia Feathers and Carolyn Walther continue their discussion of ineffectiveness assistance of counsel (IAC) in Family Court cases. Part One offered an overview ...

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