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The Supreme Court ruled 8–1 that effective legal counsel is a right but in order to prove the counsel is ineffective, the defendant needs to prove (1) their lawyer's performance was below a certain standard and (2) there is a chance that if it was not for the ineffectiveness, a different result could have occurred.
The term public defender in the United States is often used to describe a lawyer who is appointed by a court to represent a defendant who cannot afford to hire an attorney. More correctly, a public defender is a lawyer who works for a public defender's office, a government-funded agency that provides legal representation to indigent defendants.
Court interpreters and translators have an absolute ethical duty to tell judges the truth and avoid evasion. Court-appointed special advocates in some jurisdictions are considered officers of the court. Process servers carry out service of process. In some jurisdictions, they are appointed by a court and are considered appointed officers of the ...
Another problem: State law requires that even people whose cases don’t lead to a conviction must pay for the work of the attorney who handles their case. Perhaps the prosecutor who brought a ...
Guardians ad litem can be appointed by the court to represent the interests of mentally ill or disabled persons. For example, the Code of Virginia requires that the court appoint a "discreet and competent attorney-at-law" or "some other discreet and proper person" to serve as guardian ad litem to protect the interests of a person under a ...
To accommodate the public defender shortages, the judiciary agreed to pay a court-appointed lawyer $500 a day to provide attorney-of-the-day coverage in Newport and Washington County District ...
A criminal defense lawyer is a lawyer (mostly barristers) specializing in the defense of individuals and companies charged with criminal activity.Some criminal defense lawyers are privately retained, while others are employed by the various jurisdictions with criminal courts for appointment to represent indigent persons; the latter are generally called public defenders.
Iowa has one of the most aggressive court systems in the country when it comes to billing defendants for court-appointed attorneys, even in cases where they're acquitted or charges are dropped.