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By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

The next will address system issues in the representation of poor people through the lens of two cases,  Simmons v. State Public Defender from the Iowa Supreme Court & State v. Mata from across the river in Nebraska. John Wesley Hall, Jr., pegged Simmons when he noted it “is a remarkable opinion worthy of being a brief law review article itself considering the NLADA and ABA standards, cases considering “takings” of counsel’s time, counsel’s standing, and systemic ineffective assistance from a fee cap creating a disincentive for defense counsel to adequately perform in indigent criminal appeals.” In Mata the Nebraska Supreme Court examines the farce that is pro se  litigation in capital postconviction cases...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on November 29, 2010 (boomark / email).