Sentence examples for right to effective from inspiring English sources

A new rule just imposed by Mr. Ashcroft allows the government to listen in on conversations and intercept mail between some prison inmates and their lawyers -- in effect suspending the Sixth Amendment right to effective counsel.

The Supreme Court has strengthened the right to effective counsel in the plea-bargaining process.

The Sixth Amendment not only guarantees criminal defendants the right to counsel, but the right to effective counsel.

The Senate version guarantees non-Indians the right to effective counsel and trial by an impartial jury.

It is 45 years since the United States Supreme Court decided Gideon v. Wainwright, which enshrined a defendant's right to effective counsel regardless of ability to pay.

Just days before President Obama was elected, Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey ruled that immigrants have no constitutional right to effective legal representation in their deportation hearings.

Astonishingly, two other courts have since disagreed in rulings that seem equally contemptuous of defendants' rights to effective counsel.

"I think this is an acknowledgement by the RCMP that access to edible marijuana products is fundamental to patients' rights to effective medicine," he said.

Second, rigorous procedures should be in place to order the examination, use and storage of the data obtained, and those subjected to surveillance should be given a chance to exercise their right to an effective remedy.

"It is vital that the right to an effective, publicly funded defence system is protected in order to prevent the risk of a sharp increase in miscarriages of justice.

The Supreme Court has previously ruled that the Sixth Amendment gives a criminal defendant a right to an effective lawyer during plea-bargain negotiations and when the defendant gives up the right to a trial and accepts a plea offer.