If Missouri courts choose to expand on the holding of Christian, one could predict that courts in the future will hold that failure of trial counsel to object to a prosecutor's infringement on a
criminal defendant's constitutional rights in other contexts might also be considered deficient performance.
If judges win reelection at least in part because they appease public opinion by biasing themselves against
criminal defendants, then we think there is less cause for relief than Attacking Judges perhaps implies.
In Iowa,
criminal defendants and prisoners have a statutory right to counsel in most cases before the appellate courts.
untrustworthy." (144) Accordingly,
criminal defendants were
The Florida Supreme Court held in Puglisi that a
criminal defendant does not have the authority to make strategic decisions in his case and that it is the defense counsel that "has the final authority as to whether or not the defense will call a particular witness to testify at the criminal trial." (67) In a unanimous decision, the Florida Supreme Court found that the Sixth Amendment grants defendants only four fundamental rights in a criminal case: "whether to plead guilty, waive a jury, testify in his or her own behalf, or take an appeal." (68) A defendant who chooses to represent himself would have free reign to proceed in any direction he believes would assist his defense.
Resurrecting Autonomy: The
Criminal Defendant's Right To Control
The National Association of Criminal Defense Counsel has published a proposed opinion, 03-02, which indicates that a criminal defense lawyer may not participate in a plea agreement that waives the client's right to collaterally attack the plea with a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, because of the personal conflict of interest it presents for criminal defense counsel, and because the waiver limits the lawyer's malpractice liability, because the
criminal defendant in most jurisdictions must make a successful ineffective assistance of counsel claim in order to bring a malpractice claim against the lawyer.
While the
criminal defendant certainly has an interest in obtaining a favorable outcome, they also have an interest in the execution of their defense.
Bearden ordered Kidd treated until she becomes well enough to stand trial or until she has been in custody for three years - the legal limit in Oregon for confining
criminal defendants solely on the basis of incompetence to stand trial.
While Illinois courts have been advising
criminal defendants generally of possible immigration consequences pursuant to 725 ILCS 5/113-8, since 2004, that does not appear to be sufficient where the specific consequence can be "easily determined." Many Illinois lawyers and judges who are not versed in immigration law are looking to sources such as www.ImmigrantDefenseProject.
The constitutional test is not whether some mental disorder evidence is untrustworthy, or even whether mental disorder evidence in general is untrustworthy, but whether all mental disorder evidence is so untrustworthy as to justify a total ban on such evidence, given a
criminal defendant's countervailing right to a fundamentally fair trial.
For instance, the language of Rule 16 does not explain the manner or mechanisms through which ESI is to be exchanged between the prosecution and defense, and the rule is devoid of direction on how ESI is to be made accessible for review and analysis for the
criminal defendant. (122)