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"Selling Out the Client - Part III"

Posted by Jeff Gamso: "Here's the question (and I'm deliberately fuzzing it up) that's been the subject of fairly heated debate among Ohio criminal defense lawyers this afternoon:

The judge screws up the written entry (which in Ohio is what counts) and gives the client less time than everyone expected and less, almost surely, than the judge intended. Apparently, the only one who notices is defense counsel. What's counsel's obligation?

Maybe you'd think that would be an easy one? And it seems as if everyone thinks it is. Except that there are two dramatically different answers coming from members of the bar.

So let's step back for a minute and try to see what's going on..."

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Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on July 30, 2009 (boomark / email).