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Taking proceeds of crime as a fee?

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Rhea Kemble Brecher, Symposium: Limitations on the Effectiveness of Criminal Defense Counsel: Legitimate Means or "Chilling Wedges?" the Sixth Amendment and the Right to Counsel, 136 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1957, 1960-61 (1988): Certainly the proceeds of this criminal action should not be used to pay for a criminal defense attorney. An old story told about Clarence Darrow vividly illustrates this issue. Darrow is in his office. He hears some commotion from the street and the cries of a bank guard. The bank guard bursts into Darrow's office and declares that the bank was robbed, but, fortunately, the thief took a satchel of money that contains a dye packet that will explode and stain the money red. The bank guard leaves. Shortly thereafter, a man enters Darrow's office...continue to full post

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on March 09, 2008 (boomark / email).