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Law.com: "11th Circuit to Consider Whether Right to Counsel Is Lost When Assets Are Frozen"

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Law.com today has this article: "11th Circuit to Consider Whether Right to Counsel Is Lost When Assets Are Frozen": Even after being stripped of the money, the Kaleys didn't qualify for a federal public defender. U.S. Magistrate Judge James M. Hopkins in West Palm Beach concluded the couple could liquidate their 401(k) retirement accounts and their children's tax-deferred college funds -- at a cost of a $200,000 tax penalty -- to pay for a cut-rate lawyer.The defense asked for an unusual probable cause hearing to test the prosecutor's case, but prosecutors opposed the move. The hearing would be like a mini-trial, giving the defense an early glimpse of evidence and strategy. Srebnick and co-counsel Richard Strafer and Susan W. Van Dusen last June appealed U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on May 24, 2008 (boomark / email).