Standards of Appellate Review for Denial of Counsel and Ineffective Assistance of Counsel in Child Protection and Parental Severance Cases

Ineffective Assistance at Sentencing

The legal standards for reviewing claims of ineffective assistance of counsel at sentencing are underdeveloped. In other contexts, defendants seeking to prove ineffective assistance must demonstrate that counsel’s performance fell below appropriate professional standards and that there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel’s deficient performance, the result of the proceeding would ...

Unintended Consequences: The Impact of the Court's Recent Cases on Structural Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Claims

The Psychology of Hindsight and After-the-Fact Review of Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

حقوق دفاعی متهم در «دوران تحت نظر» در قانون آیین دادرسی کیفری و بررسی تطبیقی آن با حقوق انگلستان

Taking the accused into surveillance by police officers in witnessed crimes is one of the most important authorities of them. Certainly giving this authority to police officers, which leads to the denial of freedom of accused for movement in limited time, is based on the efforts in order to achieve principal interests as finding out the truth and reveal the fact in criminal cases as well obtain...

Commentary: expert testimony as a potential asset in defense of capital sentencing cases.

Montgomery et al. have documented the extent to which jurors apparently do and do not rely on expert testimony regarding dangerousness and mental illness. This article reviews some of the methodological issues raised by their findings and argues that their results have potential value for appellate defense counsel in appealing death sentences in which trial counsel failed to introduce expert te...