States law, ineffective assistance of counsel (IAC) is a claim raised by a convicted criminal defendant asserting that the defendant's legal counsel performed...

test for an ineffective assistance of counsel claim: Counsel's performance fell below an objective standard of reasonableness. Counsel's performance gives...

know to make a challenge of ineffective assistance of counsel, and make one, or the claim of ineffective assistance of counsel or the issue cannot be raised...

to ineffective assistance of counsel during plea bargaining. The Court ruled that when a lawyer's ineffective assistance leads to the rejection of a plea...

to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence." The assistance of counsel clause includes five distinct rights: the right to counsel of choice, the...

In criminal law, the right to counsel means a defendant has a legal right to have the assistance of counsel (i.e., lawyers) and, if the defendant cannot...

Look up counsel or co-counsel in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Attorney at law General counsel Ineffective assistance of counsel  One or more of the preceding...

prevail on a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel required Jones to demonstrate both that "counsel committed serious errors in light of prevailing professional...

murder conviction was obtained through the use of false evidence and ineffective assistance of counsel. Lisker was freed on August 13, 2009. On September...

Eight, and Fourteen. Such cases have come to comprise a substantial portion of the Supreme Court's docket. See #Jury Clauses Ex parte Bollman, 8 U.S. (4...

District of California, invalidating the death sentence on ineffective assistance of counsel grounds. On June 19, 1996, a unanimous three-judge panel of the...

Zellner filed a 1,272-page post-conviction motion citing ineffective assistance of counsel, Brady violations, and affidavits by experts allegedly debunking...

witnesses; misconduct by police, prosecutors or judges; and/or ineffective assistance of counsel (e.g., inadequate defense strategies by the defendant's or...

Terry Williams, who alleged that he had received ineffective assistance of counsel in violation of the Supreme Court's prior decision in Strickland v...

an informal pejorative term for a court that ignores recognized standards of law or justice, carries little or no official standing in the territory within...

lawyers sought a commutation of the sentence from death to prison on the following grounds: ineffective assistance of counsel; Pike suffered from mental...

innocent. He cited potential "ineffective assistance of counsel", apparent bias in jury selection, and potential weakness of the police investigation. He...

post-conviction relief on the basis of ineffective assistance of counsel. The trial court denied relief and the Idaho Court of Appeals affirmed. The Idaho Supreme...

on ineffective assistance of counsel, writing that Kaarma's attorneys had performed "...within the wide range of professionally competent assistance"....

McGuire filed a motion for post-conviction relief, alleging ineffective assistance of counsel and newly discovered evidence. On September 25, 2014, McGuire...

murder after 42 years due to eyewitness misidentification, ineffective assistance of counsel and official misconduct. They are the first exonerees freed...

clarified the standards that should be used when determining ineffective assistance of counsel claims. Other commentators have suggested that the Court's...

thrown out due to ineffective assistance of counsel. The defendant must make a positive showing that but for the erroneous advice of counsel, he would not...

subject of the first season of the podcasts Serial. In a post-conviction hearing, a judge ruled that Gutierrez "rendered ineffective assistance". Gutierrez...

United States Supreme Court decision that dealt with the effective assistance of counsel during a criminal trial. Before his trial for murder, the defendant...

the effectiveness of counsel. Frank Spisak Jr. (June 6, 1951 – February 17, 2011) was an American serial killer who was convicted of three murders and...

provided ineffective assistance of counsel and "should have done more to try to show he is intellectually disabled." They claimed that because of this Reeves...

advertising, disbarment proceedings, ineffective assistance of counsel, and judicial misconduct. Maynard Pirsig, published one of the first course books on legal...

Sara. "Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Before Powell v. Alabama:Lessons from History for the Future of the Right to Counsel". University of Pennsylvania...

panel of lawyers who act as contract attorneys. Some critics of this system have accused the method of leading to ineffective assistance of counsel in criminal...