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Lafler v. Cooper, 566 U.S. 156 (2012), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court clarified the Sixth Amendment standard for reversing convictions due to ineffective assistance of counsel during plea bargaining.
In United States law, ineffective assistance of counsel (IAC [1]) is a claim raised by a convicted criminal defendant asserting that the defendant's legal counsel performed so ineffectively that it deprived the defendant of the constitutional right guaranteed by the Assistance of Counsel Clause of the Sixth Amendment to the United States ...
The table of authorities, often called a TOA, is frequently a legal requirement for litigation briefs; the various state courts have different rules as to what kinds of briefs require a TOA. The TOA list has the name of the authority followed by the page number or numbers on which each authority appears, and the authorities are commonly listed ...
Legal aid for civil cases is currently provided by a variety of public interest law firms and community legal clinics, who often have "legal aid" or "legal services" in their names. Public interest practice emerged from the goal of promoting access to equal justice for the poor and this was inspired from the legal services disparity amongst ...
Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins; 1982 Island Trees School District v. Pico; New York v. Ferber, 458 U.S. 747 (1982) - Amicus curiae for Paul Ferber; McLean v. Arkansas; 1983 Bob Jones University v. United States; City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health, 462 U.S. 416 (1983). 1985 Wallace v.
"Brady v. Maryland Outline" (PDF). The Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 22, 2014 "Successful Brady/Napue Cases" (PDF). Habeas Assistance and Training 09/09. Capital Defense Network. September 27, 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 13, 2014
A 2021 survey conducted by the University of Maryland’s Center for Democracy and Civic Engagement and the Washington Post had ... the guilty pleas or convictions of at least half of those cases ...
Maouloud Baby v. State of Maryland [1] (aka Maryland v. Baby) is a Maryland state court case relating to the ability to withdraw sexual consent. [2] Initially, the two men involved were charged as adults with first-degree rape. First defendant, Michael Wilson, pleaded guilty to second-degree rape and was sentenced to 18 months.