Sentence examples for ineffective representation from inspiring English sources

But in India, unlike in other countries, including the United States, there's no concept of ineffective representation, Mr. Satish said.

The judge rejected Mr. O'Hara's contention that lawyers who had handled his case provided ineffective representation, saying the evidence was nearly overwhelming that Mr. O'Hara had used a sham address for voting.

Now, Mr. Rivera — who has long proclaimed his innocence and who prosecutors agree received ineffective representation — could soon become eligible for parole and potentially walk away from death row.

But Judge Irenas found that the lawyer, Glenn A. Zeitz, had provided ineffective representation by failing to pursue or present witnesses whose testimony might have persuaded the jury to give Mr. Marshall a 30-year prison sentence instead of the death penalty.

The Sixth Amendment guarantees a right to adequate trial lawyers, but the issue in Martinez v. Ryan is what happens when a defendant's trial lawyer is ineffective and then a state appellate lawyer fails to make an argument on the defendant's behalf that the ineffective representation at trial led to the conviction.

On Thursday, an appeals court upheld the lower court's decision, finding that Syed had ineffective representation at his original murder trial in 2000, CBS News reports.

The Bush administration, however, successfully argued in several federal appeals court cases that there was no constitutional right to have a case reopened because of ineffective legal representation.

His murder conviction was twice overturned – once in 1992 on grounds that he had received ineffective defense representation, and again in 2008 because of racial discrimination in setting up the grand jury that indicted him.

His release was secured through a plea deal in which the state of Louisiana agreed to drop the threat of a third trial for the Brent Miller killing – two previous ones were struck down by the courts on grounds of racial discrimination and ineffective legal representation – in return for Woodfox pleading "no contest".

However, while there are certainly psychological advantages to be gained through the use of diagrams, they are (as in the case of Euler Circles) often ineffective as representations of abstract objects and relationships.

The depiction by Hannah Fearn of the Local Government Association LGAas an an ineffective organisation is not a representation that I – or many of our members – recognise.