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A Marsden motion is the only means by which a criminal defendant can fire a court-appointed attorney or communicate directly with a judge in a California state court. [1] It is based on a defendant's claim that the attorney is providing ineffective assistance or has a conflict with the defendant. The name comes from the case People v. Marsden ...
Hays County prosecutors working on the case and Brown’s attorney reached a plea deal that resulted in the initial 180-day sentence. The Salyers hadn’t agreed with the charges of negligent ...
The Texas Supreme Court Building. Texas is the only state besides Oklahoma to have a bifurcated appellate system at the highest level. [4] The Texas Supreme Court hears appeals involving civil matters (which include juvenile cases), and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals hears appeals involving criminal matters. [4]
The Hays County district judges will have the authority to appoint a replacement for the vacancy. As part of Anderson's removal proceeding, Hernandez, the deputy clerk, was expected to fill the ...
He argued that the court's refusal to grant him an attorney was in direct violation to the Supreme Court's decision from Powell v. Alabama. [11] The Supreme Court, by a 6–3 decision, supported Betts's conviction. [12] Associate Justice Owen Roberts, the writer of the Supreme Court's opinion on this case, stated that the precedent set from ...
Dec. 7—RANDOLPH COUNTY — A Randolph County man cannot argue that he should not have been allowed to represent himself at his 2022 trial on child pornography charges because the judge warned ...
Beard, the Supreme Court faulted the defendant's lawyer for not reviewing a file that the attorney knew would be used by the prosecution in the sentencing phase of the trial. [17] In Glover v. United States, a lawyer was held to be ineffective when he failed to object to the judge's miscalculation of the defendant's sentence. [18] In Hinton v.
Nov. 18—A man awaiting trial on a capital murder charge for allegedly hiring two men to kill his ex-wife will have to hire an attorney after it was determined that he no longer qualifies for a ...