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More Recognition for Andrea Marsh

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pAndrea Marsh and the a href=http://TexasFairDefenseProject.orgTexas Fair Defense Project/a have been recognized as Impact Players of 2008 by a href=http://www.TexasLawyer.comTexas Lawyer/a,in the latest issue.nbsp; a href=http://www.law.com/jsp/tx/PubArticleTX.jsp?id=1202426904738LINK/a/pdiv style=margin-left: 40px;span style=font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;font size=3Andrea Marsh: The Test Case/font/span/div p style=margin-left: 40px;Andrea Marsh's first case was a doozy. emRothgery v. Gillespie County /emwent all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and established a bright-line rule that a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to counsel attaches when he first appears before a judge./p p style=margin-left: 40px;The high court's June 8-1 ruling in emRothgery/em is important to indigent defendants who, like Marsh's client, Walter Rothgery, might otherwise have to wait months before a court appoints them an attorney...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 19, 2008 (boomark / email).