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HENRY: Are you requesting consideration for a court appointed attorney?

Teixeira's court-appointed attorney did not return PEOPLE's call for comment.

Gregerson's court-appointed attorney could not immediately be reached for comment.

CNN has reached out to his court appointed attorney for comment.

CNN has reached out to Dixon's court-appointed attorney for comment.

If not, a court-appointed attorney could help him make his case.

Ftouhi's court-appointed attorney did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The couple's court-appointed attorney did not return phone calls from PEOPLE.

His court-appointed attorney has not responded to CNN requests for comment.

PEOPLE's calls to his court-appointed attorney, Jamie McGrady, were not immediately returned.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice over): Are you requesting consideration for a court appointed attorney?

His court-appointed attorney, Gregory Scholls, did not immediately return calls for comment.

He has a court-appointed attorney and has not yet entered a plea.

A judge denied bond and took his application for a court-appointed attorney.

His court-appointed attorney, Charles Snyder, declined to comment when reached by Reuters.

CNN was unable to reach his court-appointed attorney for comment on the case.

That's when Blanchard's court-appointed attorney, John LaBuda, offered his unconventional suggestion: boot camp.

His court-appointed attorney did not immediately return a call and message seeking comment.

A court-appointed attorney for Daniel Schooler could not immediately be reached for comment.

Becker's court-appointed attorney, Robert Henry Stover, did not respond to requests for comment.

His court-appointed attorney, William P. Earley, has not responded to a request for comment.

His court-appointed attorney, Devon Frampton, did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment.

He did not enter a plea, and is being represented by a court-appointed attorney.

Her court-appointed attorney, Titus Nichols, cast doubt on the government's side of the story.

He was arraigned in Galveston County Jail and he elected to get a court-appointed attorney.

Neither Watts nor his court-appointed attorney have commented publicly on the case since his arrest.

PEOPLE phone calls and emails to Moor's court-appointed attorney Macon Benoit were not immediately returned.

Her court-appointed attorney, Titus Nichols, previously cast doubt on the government's side of the story.

At a hearing last week, Rachel requested a court-appointed attorney but has not yet received one.

He appeared in federal court in Portland and asked for a court-appointed attorney, The Oregonian reported.

Zavala-Garcia's court-appointed attorney, Jeff Haas, tells PEOPLE he has not yet spoken to his client.

This exempts him from the standard court fees and makes him eligible for a court-appointed attorney.

Yu's court-appointed attorney, Michael Berg, said Yu was a teacher with no affiliation with China's government.

However, the death penalty designation allowed Slager to declare indigence, making him eligible for a court-appointed attorney.

He has not entered a plea, and his court-appointed attorney has not returned PEOPLE's calls for comment.

Ftouhi's court-appointed attorney, Joan Morgan, said in court she consented to detention on behalf of her client.

Pagourtzis told the judge he is a citizen of the United States and requested a court-appointed attorney.

DeAngelo spoke only a few words at the hearing, telling the judge he would accept a court-appointed attorney.

Eichmann and his court-appointed attorney maintained during the trial that he merely followed orders from his Nazi superiors.

Her court- appointed attorney had left New York without anyone telling her, and her new lawyer hadn't shown up.

James Mick had filed a motion requesting legal assistance, and Brittany now had another court-appointed attorney, Ron Smith.

Lt. Roddy Rodriguez of the Wharton County Sheriff's Office told CNN that Gelardi had requested a court-appointed attorney.

Pagourtzis said little during a video court appearance, answering "Yes, sir" when asked whether he wanted a court-appointed attorney.

Immigrant children do not have the right to a court-appointed attorney, but some were aided by groups like KIND.

His court-appointed attorney, David Patton, said Thursday he was concerned Rahimi would not receive adequate care for his wounds.

Ullah's court-appointed attorney, Amy Gallichio, did not dispute the request, meaning her client that will not be released on bail.

"In almost every conversation, he has stressed to me how stressful [the very public custody battle is]," Rocco's court-appointed attorney said.

Fabian's court-appointed attorney, Shannon Augustin, an assistant public defender with the 6th Judicial Circuit, could not be reached for comment on Tuesday.

He spoke in a soft voice and said "Yes, sir" when asked if he wanted a court-appointed attorney, along with other questions.

After his first appearance on Tuesday in front of a Wayne County judge, he did not enter a plea but requested a court appointed attorney.

Mitchell Dinnerstein, his court-appointed attorney, mentioned an unnamed veterinarian "of some influence" in Colombia, who was never been arrested in connection to the conspiracy.

As a court-appointed attorney, I'm asking a client who didn't get to choose me to trust that I will fight for her child—and her.

Once a district attorney files charges in the case, the judge said, a hearing will be scheduled and Laster will be assigned a court-appointed attorney.

DeAngelo spoke only a few words at the hearing, telling the judge very slowly in a feeble voice that he would accept a court-appointed attorney.

The suspect is retired with three grown children and six grandchildren, said his court-appointed attorney, assistant public defender Courtney Smallwood, according to the Chicago Tribune.

But the legal system's ugliest failure came when another, court-appointed attorney named Michael Gross represented Ramirez in his state and federal appeals, which were both unsuccessful.

Winner's court-appointed attorney, Titus Nichols, said a detention hearing will take place on Thursday in Augusta, where the judge will determine whether to release her on bond.

But in August, a few weeks after she'd been taken into custody and assigned a court-appointed attorney, her father called the Bexar County Jail looking for his daughter.

I know what I'm allowed to say through a court-appointed attorney, I know what the rules are, how close I can get to him, but, we don't talk.

Judge Brian Turpin approved an order for a competency and sanity evaluation that Bernard's court-appointed attorney James Martin requested, according to the documents obtained by CNN affiliate WSET.

Joergensen's court-appointed attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but Joergensen denied to police that he intentionally started the fire, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.

Following a contentious hearing in March and months of back-and-forth outside of court between the exes' lawyers and Rocco's court-appointed attorney, the parties came to an agreement privately.

James Ware with the Fairfax County Office of the Public Defender declined to provide the name of Torres' court-appointed attorney and added he had "no comment" on the Torres case.

In defense, his court appointed attorney called a clinical psychologist, Dr. Walter Quijano, as an expert witness, who stated that he believed Buck's "black" race increased the likelihood of future dangerousness.

As Adrine-Davis awaits her court hearing Tuesday, she no longer trusts city employees and even dismissed her court-appointed attorney because she felt they weren't working in her best interest.

Hillary Clinton (then Hillary Rodham) was Taylor's court-appointed attorney in the 1975 case; charges of first-degree rape were downgraded to a lesser charge for which Taylor served 10 months.

Undocumented immigrants who wind up in removal proceedings "are not entitled to a court-appointed attorney, the standard rules of evidence do not apply, (and) hearsay can come in," Yale-Loehr said.

The U.S. does not provide asylum seekers — even those facing deportation to possible torture and persecution — the right to a court-appointed attorney, a right it recognizes for people facing criminal charges.

He was using a court-appointed attorney during the trail but it was later discovered that Adams was still earning "significant amounts of money" while his case was pending, the statement said.

Avery's appeals to Wisconsin's higher courts for a new trial have been rejected all the way up through the Wisconsin Supreme Court and he has exhausted his rights to a court-appointed attorney.

He was represented by a court-appointed attorney at the hearing and wore a gray suit, just as he had Tuesday morning when he showed up for work at the White House complex.

I&aposm going to have you to sign a second time requesting consideration to court appointed attorney and third time keep your appointments and tell us if you change your address or phone number.

So, while another hearing is tentatively scheduled for June 1 in New York, Madonna and Ritchie's lawyers and Rocco's court-appointed attorney will continue to try to hash out a settlement out of court.

His lawyer argued that Cohen's legal team or a court-appointed attorney should be able to review the materials seized in the raids to determine whether certain documents are protected by attorney–client privilege.

Jackie Cook, Fieramusca's court appointed attorney, told CNN in an email Saturday night that she had just been assigned to the case and it was unlikely her case would be set during the holidays as most courts were closed.

At a New York Supreme Court hearing on Wednesday, the exes' lawyers, Rocco's court-appointed attorney and the judge agreed that the 15-year-old will remain in London with his father, as they work toward settling the custody dispute out of court.

Cohen appeared in court on Monday, where his lawyers argued that his legal team or a court-appointed attorney should be able to review the seized material before federal investigators, in order to determine whether the documents are protected under attorney–client privilege.

Julia's court-appointed attorney, assistant public defender Ryan Asalone, had earlier been named to represent her on the child neglect charges, and on Monday, Judge Robert Wilson V directed the public defender's office to continue representing her on the latest allegations, reports the Daily Press.

The GOP nominee — who is facing widespread criticism for his 2005 comments on a hot-mic in which he describes forcing himself on women — went after Hillary Clinton at the debate on Sunday for defending an accused child rapist as his court-appointed attorney in 1975.

In addition, Spears has been under a conservatorship overseen by her father and a court-appointed attorney for the past 10 years, and when her team made the current child custody agreement, the singer was earning substantially less than she is making now, according to Federline's court documents.

In her order, Judge Tanya S. Chutkan of the US District Court for the District of Columbia required the department to give the American Civil Liberties Union access to the unnamed detainee to determine if he wants the advocacy group or a court-appointed attorney to challenge his detention.

As for how Rocco's life as his custody arrangement is still in limbo, "He's enjoying himself [and] having a good educational experience" at his new school in London – but he finds the ongoing litigation and spotlight of the media "stressful," his court-appointed attorney said at the New York hearing last week.

"He was extradited, I think in part, because the Mexican government knew they didn't have or believed they didn't have the legal culture to hold him and convict him," said Michael Schneider, a court-appointed attorney with the Federal Defenders of New York who represented Chapo until August, when private counsel took over the job.

Ladona Elaine Sorenson, a family attorney who was appointed the guardian ad litem (a court-appointed attorney working in the best interest of the child) when the Mans petitioned to become Natalia's legal guardian in 2016, told BuzzFeed News that while working on the guardianship case, it was quickly apparent that she had to "become involved" in the separate case involving Natalia's age.

The dispute between Madonna and Ritchie, 48, began in December 2015 after he refused to return their son to his mother in New York City for the holidays, despite an order from a New York Supreme Court judge Following a contentious hearing in March and months of back-and-forth outside of court between the former couple's lawyers and Rocco's court-appointed attorney, the exes came to an agreement privately.

America's immigration jails are already operating beyond capacity due to an influx of people fleeing violence in Central America, and the memo has been interpreted by some as an attempt to free up space by quickly scheduling court hearings to determine whether detainees should be deported or allowed to stay in the U.S. Advocates note that immigrant detainees do not have the right to a court-appointed attorney, and that 86 percent of them lack legal representation.

Since he reportedly had no assets left from his time playing in the NBA, a court-appointed attorney was assigned to him.

Only upon return did Montejo first finally meet his court-appointed attorney. At trial, the letter of apology was admitted over Montejo's objection. The jury convicted Montejo of first-degree murder, and he was sentenced to death.

Whether Powell v. Alabama applied to non-capital cases sparked heated debate. Betts v. Brady initially decided that, unless there were special circumstances such as illiteracy or a complicated trial, there was no need for a court-appointed attorney.

Allison, Bill, "The Last Escape of Mr. Jailbreak," in Peale, Norman Vincent, Ed. Faith Made Them Champions. Carmel, NY: Guideposts Associates, Inc., 1954, pp. 110-113 The court-appointed attorney advised a "guilty" plea in the hope that, since it was Turner's first offense, he would likely be sentenced to probation.

In 1980, as a court-appointed attorney representing a bankrupt mobile home firm in Georgia, Garrison was indicted in a $46,000 theft from its trust. He was convicted and disbarred and served four months of a one-year sentence. (In 1993, the Virginia Supreme Court restored Garrison's law license). In 1982 he publicly revealed that he was gay.

He returned to the driveway where Dunne was and lay down beside her. He said he then reached into her mouth and pulled her tongue out of her throat, something he had done for his epileptic father in the past. Sweeney's court-appointed attorney, Michael Adelson, said that his client's actions were not premeditated or done with malice.

While in prison, Margarito asked Tijerina to help the wife and child of a fellow inmate. Commune members clothed and fed the woman and child, and Tijerina secured the man's release. Two days later, he was imprisoned and charged with attempting to free his brother. Released on bond, his court- appointed attorney urged him to flee the state for his own safety.

The investigation of Monserrate was part of a broad federal investigation to determine if these funds had been used for the members' personal or political expenses. Monserrate was assigned a court-appointed attorney. In May 2012, Monserrate pleaded guilty to charges of mail fraud and mail fraud conspiracy. In December 2012, he was sentenced to serve two years in prison.

Hamm entered a guilty plea and was sentenced to five years in prison. Years later, the alleged victim confessed that no robbery had ever taken place and Hamm's court-appointed attorney admitted that he had been “too busy and overworked to give this case the time and attention it needed.” Hamm was arrested other times for burglary, assault, and grand larceny.

Aaron Hart was 18 years old when he was arrested and charged with sexual assault. Hart has an intellectual disability and an IQ of 47. Hart had been playing with a 5-year-old child and they exposed and touched each other's private parts. At trial, Hart's court-appointed attorney called no witnesses on Hart's behalf and failed to obtain an independent doctor for a competency hearing.

Patrick C. Shea is an attorney in California. He was the federal court- appointed attorney that represented 170-plus municipal entities with investments of over $5 billion in the Orange County, California Chapter 9 bankruptcy. On December 6, 1994, the County of Orange declared Chapter 9 bankruptcy, from which it emerged in June 1995. The Orange County bankruptcy was the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.

Palace of Justice in Brno which houses the regional court appropriate to hear the Harok family murder case. After learning that their prime suspect had left the country, on 23 May 2013 the Czech authorities charged Kevin Dahlgren "in absentia" with committing the quadruple murder. If convicted, he could be sentenced up to life imprisonment. Court appointed attorney Richard Špíšek represented Dahlgren in the Czech murder proceedings.

The name comes from the case People v. Marsden. A defendant is required to 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 on appeal. There is no requirement to notify a defendant of such a requirement. A criminal defendant cannot simply fire a court-appointed attorney.

Stinney was rapidly convicted mostly because he faced an all- white jury. Stinney's court-appointed attorney, Charles Plowden, was a tax commissioner with political aspirations, and historians have considered him to have been ineffective in counseling Stinney. On June 16, 1944, Stinney was executed at the South Carolina Penitentiary in Columbia. Seventy years later, historians still questioned whether he was guilty and doubted that he received a fair trial.

Mircovich was convicted at the Nye County Courthouse on June 15, 1912. At the grand jury hearing on the next day, Nye County Judge Mark R. Averill denied bail, as Mircovich's case involved capital murder. George B. Thatcher was Mircovich's court-appointed attorney, but had to leave town on June 1, 1912, for the Democratic State Convention in Fallon. Averill then appointed Patrick M. Bowler on behalf of Mircovich until Thatcher returned on June 5.

For the post-conviction appeals, Rob Owen, co-director of the University of Texas at Austin School of Law's Capital Punishment Clinic was appointed to represent Skinner. Owen has represented Skinner since 2004, after his previous court-appointed attorney, Steven Losch, died. Skinner's new defense team obtained an evidentiary hearing in November 2005, the full transcript of which is available, along with numerous other legal documents, on the website set up to defend his case.

Song of Kosovo is the acclaimed first novel by Christopher Gudgeon, published in 2012. The novel tells the story of a Serbian man who is trying to get back to his childhood love. Along the way, he is weighed down by the intensity of the Kosovo War, a bipolar father and a dizzying array of criminal charges. Zavida Zanković tells his story to his gorgeous court-appointed attorney as he awaits trial.

While in custody, McGee made recorded telephone calls in which he allegedly discussed influencing witnesses. McGee appealed the denial of bail to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, which denied the appeal without comment. In his federal court case, McGee received a court-appointed attorney at government expense, despite the fact that McGee continued to receive his more-than $70,000 per year salary and a $337 per month vehicle allowanceSandler, Larry. "Car allowance scrutinized" , Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 12, 2007.

Counsel may not be present during interrogations at any time before or after indictment. As a court-appointed attorney is not approved until after indictment, suspects must rely on their own resources to hire an attorney before indictment, although local bar associations provided detainees with limited free counseling. Critics charged that access to counsel was limited both in duration and frequency; however, the Government denied that this was the case. Incommunicado detention could be used for up to 23 days.

During a S.D. Tex. hearing on 14 June 2001, Garza Rendón pled not guilty to the drug- trafficking and assault charges and said that he had no connection to Cárdenas or other members of the cartel. He said that he had a legitimate job in Mexico, and was not involved in drug trafficking. Garza Rendón's court- appointed attorney said that he could not afford a private lawyer, which indicated that he was not the cartel leader alleged by the plaintiff.

She vehemently denied acting on instructions from Manson, and said a court-appointed attorney who "had a lot of different ideas on how to get me off" had told her to claim Manson ordered the killings. Van Houten was sentenced to be executed; she was the youngest woman ever condemned to death in California. No death row for female prisoners existed, and a special unit was built. The death sentences were automatically commuted to life in prison after the California Supreme Court's People v.

Alabama applied to non-capital cases had sparked heated debate. Betts v. Brady (1942) had earlier held that, unless certain circumstances were present, such as illiteracy or low intelligence of the defendant, or an especially complicated case, there was no need for a court-appointed attorney in state court criminal proceedings. Betts had thus provided the selective application of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel to the states, depending on the circumstances, as the Sixth Amendment had only been held binding in federal cases.

On July 13, 1854, Lamb appeared in the U.S. District Court at Oregon City. She was represented by a court-appointed attorney and the presiding judge was Cyrus Olney. Her daughter had already been acquitted days earlier in a trial that lasted less than a day, and the same attorneys who had represented Mary Ann were then appointed to represent Charity. She was charged with premeditated murder, a charge which carried the death penalty, and said nothing when asked to plead to the charges.

Alabama when establishing the right to a court-appointed attorney in all capital cases: > Let us suppose the extreme case of a prisoner charged with a capital offense > who is deaf and dumb, illiterate and feeble minded, unable to employ > counsel, with the whole power of the state arrayed against him, prosecuted > by counsel for the state without assignment of counsel for his defense, > tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Such a result … if carried into > execution, would be little short of judicial murder.

I had no confidence in my court-appointed attorney, who never even asked me what happened the night I was shot and the police officer was killed; and I was excluded from at least half the trial ... Since I was denied all my rights at my trial I did not testify. I would not be used to make it look like I had a fair trial ... I never said I shot the policeman. I did not shoot the policeman ... I never said I hoped he died. I would never say something like that.

Tunnel Hill, Georgia resident, Danny Bearden was convicted of robbery for breaking into a trailer as a young man. As a result, he was ordered to pay a $500 fine and $250 in restitution, which he was initially paying off until he lost his job and couldn't find another one. This left him unable to pay the rest of his fines and fees, for which Georgia sent him to prison. Bearden's case was handled by Jim Lohr, a court-appointed attorney who had graduated from law school only a few years earlier.

Curtis Osborne (March 1970 – June 4, 2008)Curtis Osborne was an American convicted murderer on death row in Georgia from Spalding County, Georgia. He murdered Arthur Lee Jones and Linda Lisa Seaborne in 1990 to avoid paying a $400 debt. Johnny Mostiler, his court-appointed attorney, allegedly neglected to inform Osborne that the prosecutor had offered him life sentence in exchange for a plea bargain, declaring "That little nigger deserves the death penalty." Osborne's case for clemency was championed by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former Deputy U.S. Attorney General Larry Thompson, who wrote letters to the clemency board pleading for mercy.

Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), was a United States Supreme Court case in which a court-appointed attorney filed a motion to withdraw from the appeal of a criminal case because of his belief that any grounds for appeal were frivolous. The Supreme Court ruled that any such motion must be accompanied by a brief (commonly referred to as an Anders brief) outlining the case and any potential (albeit possibly frivolous) grounds for appeal, that the appellate court must independently review the case, and that a defendant must be allowed the right to appeal either pro se or by other counsel.

Shehata received permission to visit the prisoners, and is believed to have smuggled them $3000 which was later confiscated from their cell, and to have given them a letter which the Russians didn't bother to translate. In April 1997, they were sentenced to six months, and were subsequently released a month later and ran off without paying their court- appointed attorney Abdulkhalik Abdusalamov his $1,800 legal fee citing their "poverty". Shehata was sent on to Chechnya, where he met with Ibn Khattab. Zawahiri and Mabruk accompanied al-Hennawi to Baku, Azerbaijan where he'd managed to secure himself a position.

The Supreme Court declared explicitly, for the first time, that the Eighth Amendment's cruel and unusual clause must draw its meaning from the "evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society", rather than from its original meaning. Also in the 1932 case Powell v. Alabama, the court made the first step of what would later be called "death is different" jurisprudence, when it held that any indigent defendant was entitled to a court-appointed attorney in capital cases – a right that was only later extended to non-capital defendants in 1963, with Gideon v. Wainwright.

The trial began on April 28, 1931, amid great racial tension. Dewberry's black attorney was beaten by a mob that felt angered by Dewberry's choice of a black civil rights attorney over a white court-appointed attorney; Dewberry's attorney requested a change of venue because of the violent atmosphere, but this was denied, and on May 3, 1931, Holmes, Dewberry, and Rodgers all received death sentences for their crimes. The executions of the three convicts were scheduled for April 29, 1932, but Dewberry was given a stay of execution, so on that date, only Holmes and Rodgers were executed.

In 2000, Benavides sat on a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit to hear the case of Burdine v. Johnson. Burdine, who had received a death sentence for capital murder in Texas, had petitioned the federal courts for a Writ of Habeas Corpus. Burdine's central complaint was that his court- appointed attorney, Joe Cannon, had fallen asleep repeatedly during his trial. After hearing the case, Judges Rhesa Barksdale and Edith Jones ruled for the Court that Burdine's claim did not, in and of itself, warrant issuance of the writ and grant of a new trial.

Sims later approved > $86,000 in legal fees for Comer's work in the case, one of the biggest sums > ever paid to a court-appointed attorney in Texas. At the time, Comer was in > debt to the Internal Revenue Service for about the same amount, according to > court documents. Comer has stated, repeated on a 2018 episode of HLN’s investigative series “Death Row Stories”, that right or wrong, he knowingly chose to not DNA test every single piece of evidence in order to at least give his client grounds for future delays of his execution, by requesting tests at some future date.

She was charged with "mailing a threatening letter to President Barack Obama". On June 6, Richardson confessed that she had mailed the three letters, knowing they contained ricin, but claimed her husband made her mail the letters. On June 20, a federal judge ordered Richardson be given a psychological examination, based on a request from her court-appointed attorney, who said she had shown "a pattern of behavior" that raised questions about her ability to assist in her own criminal defense.Chron.com On June 28, Richardson was indicted and charged in the mailing of ricin-laced letters to President Obama and Mayor Bloomberg.

When the trial opened in April 1944, True, aged 66, was described as an "elderly defendant" and after returning to his Arlington, Virginia, home on the trial's seventh day he collapsed. His court-appointed attorney said he was "feeble" and "critical" and his wife says he was "weak as a rag". The trial continued even while he was unable to attend, which his attorney later argued was grounds for a mistrial. Judge Edward C. Eicher severed True from rest of defendants, but the prosecution continued to present testimony that made him out to be part of the conspiracy.

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."... a Marsden motion, which is the official way to fire an attorney. Although a judge can deny the motion, and chances are he would, this would in effect, allow Karim to address the court and get Loftus' alleged comment on record.", Tales From A Trial, Raj Jayadev, San Jose Metro, 1-16-08 It is based on a defendant's claim that the attorney is providing ineffective assistance or has a conflict with the defendant.

His court-appointed attorney, Robert Hufsmith, added that Pixley remembered being in the company of another person earlier that evening, but that his mind was "blank since he left that person."Accused Murderer Says Memory Blank, in the Washington, NC Morning Star-News, August 8, 1964. Pixley was examined by Dr. William Karn, Jr. of the Wyoming State Hospital, who pronounced him sane, but an "incurable sociopath" at the trial, adding that "it meant a lot more to Pixley to kill the girls while they were awake." At this, Judge McAuliffe got up from his seat and attempted to assault Pixley before being restrained.

Robb was the court-appointed attorney for Earl Browder, a leader of the Communist Party, in a Contempt of Congress case in 1950, earning praise from Browder despite their political differences. He also successfully defended Otto Otepka, a former State Department official accused of giving unauthorized material to a Senate committee. Robb was probably best known as special counsel to the Atomic Energy Commission at an AEC hearing on the loyalty of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. Over the course of four weeks, Robb and the AEC panel interrogated Oppenheimer and other witnesses on his past affiliations with Communists, with Robb using harsh prosecutorial tactics.

Upon arrest, the individual is brought to a police station for processing and detained until a trial date is set. At the initial court hearing, which can be months or years after the arrest, the accused may retain an attorney at personal expense or be assigned a court- appointed attorney, although lawyers are not ensured access to their clients before trial. The individual is then tried in court, where a judge renders a verdict. Although the prison code provides for prompt access to family members, human rights organizations and families reported inconsistent application of the code, with some families waiting as long as a year to see relatives.

Shehata received permission to visit the prisoners, and is believed to have smuggled them $3000 which was later confiscated from their cell, and to have given them a letter which the Russians didn't bother to translate. In April 1997, they were sentenced to six months, and were subsequently released a month later and ran off without paying their court- appointed attorney Abulkhalik Abdusalamov his $1,800 legal fee citing their "poverty".Wall Street Journal, "Saga of Dr. Zawahri Sheds Light On the Roots of al Qaeda Terror" Shehata was sent on to Chechnya, where he met with Ibn Khattab. Zawahiri and Mabruk accompanied al-Hennawi to Baku, Azerbaijan where he'd managed to secure himself a position.

When shown photographs of several suspects, both Talbot and her friend identified the supposed hustler - he was 23-year-old Raymond Lassor, an unemployed drifter and male prostitute who frequented the area. That same day, Lassor was arrested, and during the subsequent police interviews, he signed four full confessions for the three murders and the rape of Talbot, with details of the crime scenes that only the actual perpetrator could know. He also faced an assault charge against a woman in his hometown of Westerly, but that charge was later dropped. In his trial, which lasted two years, Lassor's court-appointed attorney Russell M. Sollitto tried to discredit Talbot's testimony by arguing that she had blacked out during the attack, in addition to claiming that the authorities had coerced his client's into writing the confessions.

Shoko Asahara, the founder of the religious cult group Aum Shinrikyo, was trialed as the mastermind behind the crime perpetrated by his followers, which included the Tokyo subway sarin gas attack. Yasuda was the court- appointed attorney to defend Asahara in 1995, but was forced to quit the team in 1997 due to his arrest for obstruction of the compulsory execution concerning a corporation for which he was an advisor (See arrest of Yasuda). Some critics pointed out that this accusation was implemented because prosecutors were angry at Yasuda's court tactics to delay the trial as long as possible to avoid the sentence of a highly possible death penalty for Asahara. 1,200 lawyers listed as Yasuda's defenders, and Japan Federation of Bar Associations and Amnesty International protested that this accusation was unfair.

The new counsel, who was unfamiliar with the work that Hamm's previous attorney had been doing, called only a single witness during the trial. The court-appointed attorney did not call the expert psychologist or the mitigation psychologist, both of whom were prepared to testify about Hamm's brain damage. These problems with Hamm's 1987 trial and 1999 hearing were significant enough to warrant a group of former judges and state bar association presidents to petition the U.S. Supreme Court to grant legal relief to Hamm. The group of former judges included a former Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, a former Associate Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, a former Presiding Judge of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, and two former presidents of the Alabama State Bar.

5, 1969 At this hearing, Collins' court-appointed attorney, Richard Ryan, challenged the validity of the physical evidence and the credibility of the circumstantial evidence before formally requesting the case against his client be dismissed and the evidence seized from his rooming house and vehicle suppressed upon the grounds Collins had not consented to a police search of his property. Ryan further stated at this hearing he was "undecided" as to whether the upcoming trial be held away from the Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti district due to pretrial publicity, and this final motion was held in abeyance until an impartial jury could be selected. On October 14, Judge Conlin rejected defense motions to dismiss the case, or suppress any evidence obtained; ruling Collins' arrest had been on the reasonable grounds he had committed a felony.The Michigan Daily Oct.

Just Legal, starring Don Johnson and Jay Baruchel, is a drama about two "amusingly mismatched lawyers" that "comes at you unassumingly." David "Skip" Ross (Baruchel), 19, is a legal genius who graduated from law school at the top of his class, but now can find no one to hire him. Enter Grant Cooper, a washed- up middle-aged lawyer who has made one too many bad choices in his career, leaving him a jaded court-appointed attorney, rejected by his peers. Skip is Grant's golf caddy, and he convinces Grant just to let him write a legal brief for him; but when they arrive at the courthouse, Grant is told he needs a "second chair" (an attorney to sit at the second seat at counsel's table), and he gives them the only one he has: Skip Ross.

Posey was charged with money laundering, mail and wire fraud, conspiracy to make conduit contributions and false statements, making false statements to the Federal Election Commission, making excessive contributions, and falsification of records.News Release, "Former Texas Congressman and Associate Indicted on Conspiracy Charges," March 28, 2017, United States Department of Justice, at .First Superseding Indictment, March 28, 2017, docket entry 23, United States v. Stephen E. Stockman, Jason T. Posey, case no. 17-cr-00116, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas (Houston Div.). Due to its complexity and the need for time to review 142,378 pages of documents disclosed by the prosecution, a motion for postponement of Stockman's trial by his court-appointed attorney was granted. His trial began on January 29, 2018.Former Texas Congressman’s Fraud Trial Pushed to 2018, Courthouse News Service, Cameron Langford, April 27, 2017. Retrieved July 24, 2017.

Defendants under criminal prosecution who cannot afford to hire an attorney are not only guaranteed legal aid related to the charges, but they are guaranteed legal representation, either in the form of public defenders, or in absence of provisions for such or due to case overloads, a court-appointed attorney. The discussion surrounding legal aid and who is privileged to such a service has been criticized by law academics who assert that those who dominate and write the narratives of people who seek legal aid are individuals who benefit from the client narrative being one of inescapable poverty and desperation of an individual. Critiques assert that these asymmetrical, schematically constructed client profiles are required of civic legal aid programs in the capitalist framework of the United States as a tool to appeal to donors and other sources of funding. These representations and assessments of who seeks and deserves legal aid are argued to contribute to a culture of blaming the victims of poverty, as the narratives exclude the role the state and other civic stakeholders play in the creation of these client circumstances.

HENRY: Are you requesting consideration for a court appointed attorney? from Fox News
Teixeira's court-appointed attorney did not return PEOPLE's call for comment. from People
Gregerson's court-appointed attorney could not immediately be reached for comment. from Reuters
CNN has reached out to his court appointed attorney for comment. from CNN
CNN has reached out to Dixon's court-appointed attorney for comment. from CNN
If not, a court-appointed attorney could help him make his case. from CNN
Ftouhi's court-appointed attorney did not immediately respond to requests for comment. from Reuters
The couple's court-appointed attorney did not return phone calls from PEOPLE. from People
His court-appointed attorney has not responded to CNN requests for comment. from CNN
PEOPLE's calls to his court-appointed attorney, Jamie McGrady, were not immediately returned. from People
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice over): Are you requesting consideration for a court appointed attorney? from Fox News
His court-appointed attorney, Gregory Scholls, did not immediately return calls for comment. from People
He has a court-appointed attorney and has not yet entered a plea. from People
A judge denied bond and took his application for a court-appointed attorney. from Fox News
His court-appointed attorney, Charles Snyder, declined to comment when reached by Reuters. from Reuters
CNN was unable to reach his court-appointed attorney for comment on the case. from CNN
That's when Blanchard's court-appointed attorney, John LaBuda, offered his unconventional suggestion: boot camp. from Buzzfeed News
His court-appointed attorney did not immediately return a call and message seeking comment. from People
A court-appointed attorney for Daniel Schooler could not immediately be reached for comment. from Reuters
Becker's court-appointed attorney, Robert Henry Stover, did not respond to requests for comment. from Buzzfeed News
His court-appointed attorney, William P. Earley, has not responded to a request for comment. from CNN
His court-appointed attorney, Devon Frampton, did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment. from People
He did not enter a plea, and is being represented by a court-appointed attorney. from People
Her court-appointed attorney, Titus Nichols, cast doubt on the government's side of the story. from CNN
He was arraigned in Galveston County Jail and he elected to get a court-appointed attorney. from Fox News
Neither Watts nor his court-appointed attorney have commented publicly on the case since his arrest. from Reuters
PEOPLE phone calls and emails to Moor's court-appointed attorney Macon Benoit were not immediately returned. from People
Her court-appointed attorney, Titus Nichols, previously cast doubt on the government's side of the story. from CNN
At a hearing last week, Rachel requested a court-appointed attorney but has not yet received one. from People
He appeared in federal court in Portland and asked for a court-appointed attorney, The Oregonian reported. from CNN
Zavala-Garcia's court-appointed attorney, Jeff Haas, tells PEOPLE he has not yet spoken to his client. from People
This exempts him from the standard court fees and makes him eligible for a court-appointed attorney. from Reuters
Yu's court-appointed attorney, Michael Berg, said Yu was a teacher with no affiliation with China's government. from CNBC
However, the death penalty designation allowed Slager to declare indigence, making him eligible for a court-appointed attorney. from CNN
He has not entered a plea, and his court-appointed attorney has not returned PEOPLE's calls for comment. from People
Ftouhi's court-appointed attorney, Joan Morgan, said in court she consented to detention on behalf of her client. from CNN
Pagourtzis told the judge he is a citizen of the United States and requested a court-appointed attorney. from CNN
DeAngelo spoke only a few words at the hearing, telling the judge he would accept a court-appointed attorney. from CNN
Eichmann and his court-appointed attorney maintained during the trial that he merely followed orders from his Nazi superiors. from CNN
Her court- appointed attorney had left New York without anyone telling her, and her new lawyer hadn't shown up. from New Republic
James Mick had filed a motion requesting legal assistance, and Brittany now had another court-appointed attorney, Ron Smith. from New Yorker
Lt. Roddy Rodriguez of the Wharton County Sheriff's Office told CNN that Gelardi had requested a court-appointed attorney. from CNN
Pagourtzis said little during a video court appearance, answering "Yes, sir" when asked whether he wanted a court-appointed attorney. from CNN
Immigrant children do not have the right to a court-appointed attorney, but some were aided by groups like KIND. from The Hill
His court-appointed attorney, David Patton, said Thursday he was concerned Rahimi would not receive adequate care for his wounds. from Reuters
Ullah's court-appointed attorney, Amy Gallichio, did not dispute the request, meaning her client that will not be released on bail. from Reuters
"In almost every conversation, he has stressed to me how stressful [the very public custody battle is]," Rocco's court-appointed attorney said. from People
Fabian's court-appointed attorney, Shannon Augustin, an assistant public defender with the 6th Judicial Circuit, could not be reached for comment on Tuesday. from CNN
He spoke in a soft voice and said "Yes, sir" when asked if he wanted a court-appointed attorney, along with other questions. from Reuters
After his first appearance on Tuesday in front of a Wayne County judge, he did not enter a plea but requested a court appointed attorney. from People
Mitchell Dinnerstein, his court-appointed attorney, mentioned an unnamed veterinarian "of some influence" in Colombia, who was never been arrested in connection to the conspiracy. from The New York Times
As a court-appointed attorney, I'm asking a client who didn't get to choose me to trust that I will fight for her child—and her. from Vice
Once a district attorney files charges in the case, the judge said, a hearing will be scheduled and Laster will be assigned a court-appointed attorney. from CNN
DeAngelo spoke only a few words at the hearing, telling the judge very slowly in a feeble voice that he would accept a court-appointed attorney. from CNN
The suspect is retired with three grown children and six grandchildren, said his court-appointed attorney, assistant public defender Courtney Smallwood, according to the Chicago Tribune. from People
But the legal system's ugliest failure came when another, court-appointed attorney named Michael Gross represented Ramirez in his state and federal appeals, which were both unsuccessful. from Vice
Winner's court-appointed attorney, Titus Nichols, said a detention hearing will take place on Thursday in Augusta, where the judge will determine whether to release her on bond. from CNN
But in August, a few weeks after she'd been taken into custody and assigned a court-appointed attorney, her father called the Bexar County Jail looking for his daughter. from Refinery 29
I know what I'm allowed to say through a court-appointed attorney, I know what the rules are, how close I can get to him, but, we don't talk. from People
Judge Brian Turpin approved an order for a competency and sanity evaluation that Bernard's court-appointed attorney James Martin requested, according to the documents obtained by CNN affiliate WSET. from CNN
Joergensen's court-appointed attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but Joergensen denied to police that he intentionally started the fire, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. from Reuters
Following a contentious hearing in March and months of back-and-forth outside of court between the exes' lawyers and Rocco's court-appointed attorney, the parties came to an agreement privately. from People
James Ware with the Fairfax County Office of the Public Defender declined to provide the name of Torres' court-appointed attorney and added he had "no comment" on the Torres case. from CNN
In defense, his court appointed attorney called a clinical psychologist, Dr. Walter Quijano, as an expert witness, who stated that he believed Buck's "black" race increased the likelihood of future dangerousness. from The Hill
As Adrine-Davis awaits her court hearing Tuesday, she no longer trusts city employees and even dismissed her court-appointed attorney because she felt they weren't working in her best interest. from Vice
Hillary Clinton (then Hillary Rodham) was Taylor's court-appointed attorney in the 1975 case; charges of first-degree rape were downgraded to a lesser charge for which Taylor served 10 months. from Mashable
Undocumented immigrants who wind up in removal proceedings "are not entitled to a court-appointed attorney, the standard rules of evidence do not apply, (and) hearsay can come in," Yale-Loehr said. from CNN
The U.S. does not provide asylum seekers — even those facing deportation to possible torture and persecution — the right to a court-appointed attorney, a right it recognizes for people facing criminal charges. from The Hill
He was using a court-appointed attorney during the trail but it was later discovered that Adams was still earning "significant amounts of money" while his case was pending, the statement said. from CNN
Avery's appeals to Wisconsin's higher courts for a new trial have been rejected all the way up through the Wisconsin Supreme Court and he has exhausted his rights to a court-appointed attorney. from Business Insider
He was represented by a court-appointed attorney at the hearing and wore a gray suit, just as he had Tuesday morning when he showed up for work at the White House complex. from CNN
I&aposm going to have you to sign a second time requesting consideration to court appointed attorney and third time keep your appointments and tell us if you change your address or phone number. from Fox News
So, while another hearing is tentatively scheduled for June 1 in New York, Madonna and Ritchie's lawyers and Rocco's court-appointed attorney will continue to try to hash out a settlement out of court. from People
His lawyer argued that Cohen's legal team or a court-appointed attorney should be able to review the materials seized in the raids to determine whether certain documents are protected by attorney–client privilege. from The Hill
Jackie Cook, Fieramusca's court appointed attorney, told CNN in an email Saturday night that she had just been assigned to the case and it was unlikely her case would be set during the holidays as most courts were closed. from CNN
At a New York Supreme Court hearing on Wednesday, the exes' lawyers, Rocco's court-appointed attorney and the judge agreed that the 15-year-old will remain in London with his father, as they work toward settling the custody dispute out of court. from People
Cohen appeared in court on Monday, where his lawyers argued that his legal team or a court-appointed attorney should be able to review the seized material before federal investigators, in order to determine whether the documents are protected under attorney–client privilege. from The Hill
Julia's court-appointed attorney, assistant public defender Ryan Asalone, had earlier been named to represent her on the child neglect charges, and on Monday, Judge Robert Wilson V directed the public defender's office to continue representing her on the latest allegations, reports the Daily Press. from People
The GOP nominee — who is facing widespread criticism for his 2005 comments on a hot-mic in which he describes forcing himself on women — went after Hillary Clinton at the debate on Sunday for defending an accused child rapist as his court-appointed attorney in 1975. from CNN
In addition, Spears has been under a conservatorship overseen by her father and a court-appointed attorney for the past 10 years, and when her team made the current child custody agreement, the singer was earning substantially less than she is making now, according to Federline's court documents. from Buzzfeed News
In her order, Judge Tanya S. Chutkan of the US District Court for the District of Columbia required the department to give the American Civil Liberties Union access to the unnamed detainee to determine if he wants the advocacy group or a court-appointed attorney to challenge his detention. from CNN
As for how Rocco's life as his custody arrangement is still in limbo, "He's enjoying himself [and] having a good educational experience" at his new school in London – but he finds the ongoing litigation and spotlight of the media "stressful," his court-appointed attorney said at the New York hearing last week. from People
"He was extradited, I think in part, because the Mexican government knew they didn't have or believed they didn't have the legal culture to hold him and convict him," said Michael Schneider, a court-appointed attorney with the Federal Defenders of New York who represented Chapo until August, when private counsel took over the job. from Vice News
Ladona Elaine Sorenson, a family attorney who was appointed the guardian ad litem (a court-appointed attorney working in the best interest of the child) when the Mans petitioned to become Natalia's legal guardian in 2016, told BuzzFeed News that while working on the guardianship case, it was quickly apparent that she had to "become involved" in the separate case involving Natalia's age. from Buzzfeed News
The dispute between Madonna and Ritchie, 48, began in December 2015 after he refused to return their son to his mother in New York City for the holidays, despite an order from a New York Supreme Court judge Following a contentious hearing in March and months of back-and-forth outside of court between the former couple's lawyers and Rocco's court-appointed attorney, the exes came to an agreement privately. from People
America's immigration jails are already operating beyond capacity due to an influx of people fleeing violence in Central America, and the memo has been interpreted by some as an attempt to free up space by quickly scheduling court hearings to determine whether detainees should be deported or allowed to stay in the U.S. Advocates note that immigrant detainees do not have the right to a court-appointed attorney, and that 86 percent of them lack legal representation. from Vice News
Since he reportedly had no assets left from his time playing in the NBA, a court-appointed attorney was assigned to him.
Only upon return did Montejo first finally meet his court-appointed attorney. At trial, the letter of apology was admitted over Montejo's objection. The jury convicted Montejo of first-degree murder, and he was sentenced to death.
Whether Powell v. Alabama applied to non-capital cases sparked heated debate. Betts v. Brady initially decided that, unless there were special circumstances such as illiteracy or a complicated trial, there was no need for a court-appointed attorney.
Allison, Bill, "The Last Escape of Mr. Jailbreak," in Peale, Norman Vincent, Ed. Faith Made Them Champions. Carmel, NY: Guideposts Associates, Inc., 1954, pp. 110-113 The court-appointed attorney advised a "guilty" plea in the hope that, since it was Turner's first offense, he would likely be sentenced to probation.
In 1980, as a court-appointed attorney representing a bankrupt mobile home firm in Georgia, Garrison was indicted in a $46,000 theft from its trust. He was convicted and disbarred and served four months of a one-year sentence. (In 1993, the Virginia Supreme Court restored Garrison's law license). In 1982 he publicly revealed that he was gay.
He returned to the driveway where Dunne was and lay down beside her. He said he then reached into her mouth and pulled her tongue out of her throat, something he had done for his epileptic father in the past. Sweeney's court-appointed attorney, Michael Adelson, said that his client's actions were not premeditated or done with malice.
While in prison, Margarito asked Tijerina to help the wife and child of a fellow inmate. Commune members clothed and fed the woman and child, and Tijerina secured the man's release. Two days later, he was imprisoned and charged with attempting to free his brother. Released on bond, his court- appointed attorney urged him to flee the state for his own safety.
The investigation of Monserrate was part of a broad federal investigation to determine if these funds had been used for the members' personal or political expenses. Monserrate was assigned a court-appointed attorney. In May 2012, Monserrate pleaded guilty to charges of mail fraud and mail fraud conspiracy. In December 2012, he was sentenced to serve two years in prison.
Hamm entered a guilty plea and was sentenced to five years in prison. Years later, the alleged victim confessed that no robbery had ever taken place and Hamm's court-appointed attorney admitted that he had been “too busy and overworked to give this case the time and attention it needed.” Hamm was arrested other times for burglary, assault, and grand larceny.
Aaron Hart was 18 years old when he was arrested and charged with sexual assault. Hart has an intellectual disability and an IQ of 47. Hart had been playing with a 5-year-old child and they exposed and touched each other's private parts. At trial, Hart's court-appointed attorney called no witnesses on Hart's behalf and failed to obtain an independent doctor for a competency hearing.
Patrick C. Shea is an attorney in California. He was the federal court- appointed attorney that represented 170-plus municipal entities with investments of over $5 billion in the Orange County, California Chapter 9 bankruptcy. On December 6, 1994, the County of Orange declared Chapter 9 bankruptcy, from which it emerged in June 1995. The Orange County bankruptcy was the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.
Palace of Justice in Brno which houses the regional court appropriate to hear the Harok family murder case. After learning that their prime suspect had left the country, on 23 May 2013 the Czech authorities charged Kevin Dahlgren "in absentia" with committing the quadruple murder. If convicted, he could be sentenced up to life imprisonment. Court appointed attorney Richard Špíšek represented Dahlgren in the Czech murder proceedings.
The name comes from the case People v. Marsden. A defendant is required to 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 on appeal. There is no requirement to notify a defendant of such a requirement. A criminal defendant cannot simply fire a court-appointed attorney.
Stinney was rapidly convicted mostly because he faced an all- white jury. Stinney's court-appointed attorney, Charles Plowden, was a tax commissioner with political aspirations, and historians have considered him to have been ineffective in counseling Stinney. On June 16, 1944, Stinney was executed at the South Carolina Penitentiary in Columbia. Seventy years later, historians still questioned whether he was guilty and doubted that he received a fair trial.
Mircovich was convicted at the Nye County Courthouse on June 15, 1912. At the grand jury hearing on the next day, Nye County Judge Mark R. Averill denied bail, as Mircovich's case involved capital murder. George B. Thatcher was Mircovich's court-appointed attorney, but had to leave town on June 1, 1912, for the Democratic State Convention in Fallon. Averill then appointed Patrick M. Bowler on behalf of Mircovich until Thatcher returned on June 5.
For the post-conviction appeals, Rob Owen, co-director of the University of Texas at Austin School of Law's Capital Punishment Clinic was appointed to represent Skinner. Owen has represented Skinner since 2004, after his previous court-appointed attorney, Steven Losch, died. Skinner's new defense team obtained an evidentiary hearing in November 2005, the full transcript of which is available, along with numerous other legal documents, on the website set up to defend his case.
Song of Kosovo is the acclaimed first novel by Christopher Gudgeon, published in 2012. The novel tells the story of a Serbian man who is trying to get back to his childhood love. Along the way, he is weighed down by the intensity of the Kosovo War, a bipolar father and a dizzying array of criminal charges. Zavida Zanković tells his story to his gorgeous court-appointed attorney as he awaits trial.
While in custody, McGee made recorded telephone calls in which he allegedly discussed influencing witnesses. McGee appealed the denial of bail to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, which denied the appeal without comment. In his federal court case, McGee received a court-appointed attorney at government expense, despite the fact that McGee continued to receive his more-than $70,000 per year salary and a $337 per month vehicle allowanceSandler, Larry. "Car allowance scrutinized" , Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 12, 2007.
Counsel may not be present during interrogations at any time before or after indictment. As a court-appointed attorney is not approved until after indictment, suspects must rely on their own resources to hire an attorney before indictment, although local bar associations provided detainees with limited free counseling. Critics charged that access to counsel was limited both in duration and frequency; however, the Government denied that this was the case. Incommunicado detention could be used for up to 23 days.
During a S.D. Tex. hearing on 14 June 2001, Garza Rendón pled not guilty to the drug- trafficking and assault charges and said that he had no connection to Cárdenas or other members of the cartel. He said that he had a legitimate job in Mexico, and was not involved in drug trafficking. Garza Rendón's court- appointed attorney said that he could not afford a private lawyer, which indicated that he was not the cartel leader alleged by the plaintiff.
She vehemently denied acting on instructions from Manson, and said a court-appointed attorney who "had a lot of different ideas on how to get me off" had told her to claim Manson ordered the killings. Van Houten was sentenced to be executed; she was the youngest woman ever condemned to death in California. No death row for female prisoners existed, and a special unit was built. The death sentences were automatically commuted to life in prison after the California Supreme Court's People v.
Alabama applied to non-capital cases had sparked heated debate. Betts v. Brady (1942) had earlier held that, unless certain circumstances were present, such as illiteracy or low intelligence of the defendant, or an especially complicated case, there was no need for a court-appointed attorney in state court criminal proceedings. Betts had thus provided the selective application of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel to the states, depending on the circumstances, as the Sixth Amendment had only been held binding in federal cases.
On July 13, 1854, Lamb appeared in the U.S. District Court at Oregon City. She was represented by a court-appointed attorney and the presiding judge was Cyrus Olney. Her daughter had already been acquitted days earlier in a trial that lasted less than a day, and the same attorneys who had represented Mary Ann were then appointed to represent Charity. She was charged with premeditated murder, a charge which carried the death penalty, and said nothing when asked to plead to the charges.
Alabama when establishing the right to a court-appointed attorney in all capital cases: > Let us suppose the extreme case of a prisoner charged with a capital offense > who is deaf and dumb, illiterate and feeble minded, unable to employ > counsel, with the whole power of the state arrayed against him, prosecuted > by counsel for the state without assignment of counsel for his defense, > tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Such a result … if carried into > execution, would be little short of judicial murder.
I had no confidence in my court-appointed attorney, who never even asked me what happened the night I was shot and the police officer was killed; and I was excluded from at least half the trial ... Since I was denied all my rights at my trial I did not testify. I would not be used to make it look like I had a fair trial ... I never said I shot the policeman. I did not shoot the policeman ... I never said I hoped he died. I would never say something like that.
Tunnel Hill, Georgia resident, Danny Bearden was convicted of robbery for breaking into a trailer as a young man. As a result, he was ordered to pay a $500 fine and $250 in restitution, which he was initially paying off until he lost his job and couldn't find another one. This left him unable to pay the rest of his fines and fees, for which Georgia sent him to prison. Bearden's case was handled by Jim Lohr, a court-appointed attorney who had graduated from law school only a few years earlier.
Curtis Osborne (March 1970 – June 4, 2008)Curtis Osborne was an American convicted murderer on death row in Georgia from Spalding County, Georgia. He murdered Arthur Lee Jones and Linda Lisa Seaborne in 1990 to avoid paying a $400 debt. Johnny Mostiler, his court-appointed attorney, allegedly neglected to inform Osborne that the prosecutor had offered him life sentence in exchange for a plea bargain, declaring "That little nigger deserves the death penalty." Osborne's case for clemency was championed by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former Deputy U.S. Attorney General Larry Thompson, who wrote letters to the clemency board pleading for mercy.
Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), was a United States Supreme Court case in which a court-appointed attorney filed a motion to withdraw from the appeal of a criminal case because of his belief that any grounds for appeal were frivolous. The Supreme Court ruled that any such motion must be accompanied by a brief (commonly referred to as an Anders brief) outlining the case and any potential (albeit possibly frivolous) grounds for appeal, that the appellate court must independently review the case, and that a defendant must be allowed the right to appeal either pro se or by other counsel.
Shehata received permission to visit the prisoners, and is believed to have smuggled them $3000 which was later confiscated from their cell, and to have given them a letter which the Russians didn't bother to translate. In April 1997, they were sentenced to six months, and were subsequently released a month later and ran off without paying their court- appointed attorney Abdulkhalik Abdusalamov his $1,800 legal fee citing their "poverty". Shehata was sent on to Chechnya, where he met with Ibn Khattab. Zawahiri and Mabruk accompanied al-Hennawi to Baku, Azerbaijan where he'd managed to secure himself a position.
The Supreme Court declared explicitly, for the first time, that the Eighth Amendment's cruel and unusual clause must draw its meaning from the "evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society", rather than from its original meaning. Also in the 1932 case Powell v. Alabama, the court made the first step of what would later be called "death is different" jurisprudence, when it held that any indigent defendant was entitled to a court-appointed attorney in capital cases – a right that was only later extended to non-capital defendants in 1963, with Gideon v. Wainwright.
The trial began on April 28, 1931, amid great racial tension. Dewberry's black attorney was beaten by a mob that felt angered by Dewberry's choice of a black civil rights attorney over a white court-appointed attorney; Dewberry's attorney requested a change of venue because of the violent atmosphere, but this was denied, and on May 3, 1931, Holmes, Dewberry, and Rodgers all received death sentences for their crimes. The executions of the three convicts were scheduled for April 29, 1932, but Dewberry was given a stay of execution, so on that date, only Holmes and Rodgers were executed.
In 2000, Benavides sat on a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit to hear the case of Burdine v. Johnson. Burdine, who had received a death sentence for capital murder in Texas, had petitioned the federal courts for a Writ of Habeas Corpus. Burdine's central complaint was that his court- appointed attorney, Joe Cannon, had fallen asleep repeatedly during his trial. After hearing the case, Judges Rhesa Barksdale and Edith Jones ruled for the Court that Burdine's claim did not, in and of itself, warrant issuance of the writ and grant of a new trial.
Sims later approved > $86,000 in legal fees for Comer's work in the case, one of the biggest sums > ever paid to a court-appointed attorney in Texas. At the time, Comer was in > debt to the Internal Revenue Service for about the same amount, according to > court documents. Comer has stated, repeated on a 2018 episode of HLN’s investigative series “Death Row Stories”, that right or wrong, he knowingly chose to not DNA test every single piece of evidence in order to at least give his client grounds for future delays of his execution, by requesting tests at some future date.
She was charged with "mailing a threatening letter to President Barack Obama". On June 6, Richardson confessed that she had mailed the three letters, knowing they contained ricin, but claimed her husband made her mail the letters. On June 20, a federal judge ordered Richardson be given a psychological examination, based on a request from her court-appointed attorney, who said she had shown "a pattern of behavior" that raised questions about her ability to assist in her own criminal defense.Chron.com On June 28, Richardson was indicted and charged in the mailing of ricin-laced letters to President Obama and Mayor Bloomberg.
When the trial opened in April 1944, True, aged 66, was described as an "elderly defendant" and after returning to his Arlington, Virginia, home on the trial's seventh day he collapsed. His court-appointed attorney said he was "feeble" and "critical" and his wife says he was "weak as a rag". The trial continued even while he was unable to attend, which his attorney later argued was grounds for a mistrial. Judge Edward C. Eicher severed True from rest of defendants, but the prosecution continued to present testimony that made him out to be part of the conspiracy.
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."... a Marsden motion, which is the official way to fire an attorney. Although a judge can deny the motion, and chances are he would, this would in effect, allow Karim to address the court and get Loftus' alleged comment on record.", Tales From A Trial, Raj Jayadev, San Jose Metro, 1-16-08 It is based on a defendant's claim that the attorney is providing ineffective assistance or has a conflict with the defendant.
His court-appointed attorney, Robert Hufsmith, added that Pixley remembered being in the company of another person earlier that evening, but that his mind was "blank since he left that person."Accused Murderer Says Memory Blank, in the Washington, NC Morning Star-News, August 8, 1964. Pixley was examined by Dr. William Karn, Jr. of the Wyoming State Hospital, who pronounced him sane, but an "incurable sociopath" at the trial, adding that "it meant a lot more to Pixley to kill the girls while they were awake." At this, Judge McAuliffe got up from his seat and attempted to assault Pixley before being restrained.
Robb was the court-appointed attorney for Earl Browder, a leader of the Communist Party, in a Contempt of Congress case in 1950, earning praise from Browder despite their political differences. He also successfully defended Otto Otepka, a former State Department official accused of giving unauthorized material to a Senate committee. Robb was probably best known as special counsel to the Atomic Energy Commission at an AEC hearing on the loyalty of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. Over the course of four weeks, Robb and the AEC panel interrogated Oppenheimer and other witnesses on his past affiliations with Communists, with Robb using harsh prosecutorial tactics.
Upon arrest, the individual is brought to a police station for processing and detained until a trial date is set. At the initial court hearing, which can be months or years after the arrest, the accused may retain an attorney at personal expense or be assigned a court- appointed attorney, although lawyers are not ensured access to their clients before trial. The individual is then tried in court, where a judge renders a verdict. Although the prison code provides for prompt access to family members, human rights organizations and families reported inconsistent application of the code, with some families waiting as long as a year to see relatives.
Shehata received permission to visit the prisoners, and is believed to have smuggled them $3000 which was later confiscated from their cell, and to have given them a letter which the Russians didn't bother to translate. In April 1997, they were sentenced to six months, and were subsequently released a month later and ran off without paying their court- appointed attorney Abulkhalik Abdusalamov his $1,800 legal fee citing their "poverty".Wall Street Journal, "Saga of Dr. Zawahri Sheds Light On the Roots of al Qaeda Terror" Shehata was sent on to Chechnya, where he met with Ibn Khattab. Zawahiri and Mabruk accompanied al-Hennawi to Baku, Azerbaijan where he'd managed to secure himself a position.
When shown photographs of several suspects, both Talbot and her friend identified the supposed hustler - he was 23-year-old Raymond Lassor, an unemployed drifter and male prostitute who frequented the area. That same day, Lassor was arrested, and during the subsequent police interviews, he signed four full confessions for the three murders and the rape of Talbot, with details of the crime scenes that only the actual perpetrator could know. He also faced an assault charge against a woman in his hometown of Westerly, but that charge was later dropped. In his trial, which lasted two years, Lassor's court-appointed attorney Russell M. Sollitto tried to discredit Talbot's testimony by arguing that she had blacked out during the attack, in addition to claiming that the authorities had coerced his client's into writing the confessions.
Shoko Asahara, the founder of the religious cult group Aum Shinrikyo, was trialed as the mastermind behind the crime perpetrated by his followers, which included the Tokyo subway sarin gas attack. Yasuda was the court- appointed attorney to defend Asahara in 1995, but was forced to quit the team in 1997 due to his arrest for obstruction of the compulsory execution concerning a corporation for which he was an advisor (See arrest of Yasuda). Some critics pointed out that this accusation was implemented because prosecutors were angry at Yasuda's court tactics to delay the trial as long as possible to avoid the sentence of a highly possible death penalty for Asahara. 1,200 lawyers listed as Yasuda's defenders, and Japan Federation of Bar Associations and Amnesty International protested that this accusation was unfair.
The new counsel, who was unfamiliar with the work that Hamm's previous attorney had been doing, called only a single witness during the trial. The court-appointed attorney did not call the expert psychologist or the mitigation psychologist, both of whom were prepared to testify about Hamm's brain damage. These problems with Hamm's 1987 trial and 1999 hearing were significant enough to warrant a group of former judges and state bar association presidents to petition the U.S. Supreme Court to grant legal relief to Hamm. The group of former judges included a former Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, a former Associate Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, a former Presiding Judge of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, and two former presidents of the Alabama State Bar.
5, 1969 At this hearing, Collins' court-appointed attorney, Richard Ryan, challenged the validity of the physical evidence and the credibility of the circumstantial evidence before formally requesting the case against his client be dismissed and the evidence seized from his rooming house and vehicle suppressed upon the grounds Collins had not consented to a police search of his property. Ryan further stated at this hearing he was "undecided" as to whether the upcoming trial be held away from the Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti district due to pretrial publicity, and this final motion was held in abeyance until an impartial jury could be selected. On October 14, Judge Conlin rejected defense motions to dismiss the case, or suppress any evidence obtained; ruling Collins' arrest had been on the reasonable grounds he had committed a felony.The Michigan Daily Oct.
Just Legal, starring Don Johnson and Jay Baruchel, is a drama about two "amusingly mismatched lawyers" that "comes at you unassumingly." David "Skip" Ross (Baruchel), 19, is a legal genius who graduated from law school at the top of his class, but now can find no one to hire him. Enter Grant Cooper, a washed- up middle-aged lawyer who has made one too many bad choices in his career, leaving him a jaded court-appointed attorney, rejected by his peers. Skip is Grant's golf caddy, and he convinces Grant just to let him write a legal brief for him; but when they arrive at the courthouse, Grant is told he needs a "second chair" (an attorney to sit at the second seat at counsel's table), and he gives them the only one he has: Skip Ross.
Posey was charged with money laundering, mail and wire fraud, conspiracy to make conduit contributions and false statements, making false statements to the Federal Election Commission, making excessive contributions, and falsification of records.News Release, "Former Texas Congressman and Associate Indicted on Conspiracy Charges," March 28, 2017, United States Department of Justice, at .First Superseding Indictment, March 28, 2017, docket entry 23, United States v. Stephen E. Stockman, Jason T. Posey, case no. 17-cr-00116, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas (Houston Div.). Due to its complexity and the need for time to review 142,378 pages of documents disclosed by the prosecution, a motion for postponement of Stockman's trial by his court-appointed attorney was granted. His trial began on January 29, 2018.Former Texas Congressman’s Fraud Trial Pushed to 2018, Courthouse News Service, Cameron Langford, April 27, 2017. Retrieved July 24, 2017.
Defendants under criminal prosecution who cannot afford to hire an attorney are not only guaranteed legal aid related to the charges, but they are guaranteed legal representation, either in the form of public defenders, or in absence of provisions for such or due to case overloads, a court-appointed attorney. The discussion surrounding legal aid and who is privileged to such a service has been criticized by law academics who assert that those who dominate and write the narratives of people who seek legal aid are individuals who benefit from the client narrative being one of inescapable poverty and desperation of an individual. Critiques assert that these asymmetrical, schematically constructed client profiles are required of civic legal aid programs in the capitalist framework of the United States as a tool to appeal to donors and other sources of funding. These representations and assessments of who seeks and deserves legal aid are argued to contribute to a culture of blaming the victims of poverty, as the narratives exclude the role the state and other civic stakeholders play in the creation of these client circumstances.