Appellate Practice
Jul. 7, 2006
Panel Faults Lawyer's Crapshoot That Sent Client to Death Row
Lawyers aren't expected to be clairvoyants. But they also shouldn't make risky predictions when their clients' lives are on the line.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Lawyers aren't expected to be clairvoyants. But they also shouldn't make risky predictions when their clients' lives are on the line.
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday reversed the death sentence of a convicted murderer whose attorney advised him to turn down a plea bargain that would have spared him from capital p...
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