“I don’t understand … the client got a departure sentence. How can he file an ‘ineffective assistance of counsel’ claim against me?” decried the defense attorney.
The exasperated statement from the attorney presupposes that the departure sentence was the best...
Anyone charged with a crime in America is entitled “to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.”[i] Our brief American history is riddled with anecdotes of citizens being tried and convicted without an attorney; the right to an attorney in a criminal prosecution...
