Time for Court

Veterans “will generally receive ineffective assistance of counsel.”   - Barry L. Levin. Defense of the Vietnam Veteran With Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. 46 Am. Jur. Trials 441, § 1 (2023)

In Defending Constitutional Rights in Imbalanced Courtrooms, 111 J. Crim. L. & Criminology, 501, 507-08 (2001), Ester Nir and Siyu Liu presented an insightful observation of what they described as a not-so-discernible “court community” where, “despite their opposing roles, defense attorneys often develop shared values and expectations with their ‘adversaries,’” which Keith A. Findley (2022) argued in his scholarly work, Plea Bargaining in the Shadow of a Retrial: Bargaining Away Innocence, 2022 Wis. L. Rev. 533, 550, could cause defense attorneys to intentionally or unintentionally, consciously or unconsciously, facilitate prosecutors with leveraging their plea-bargaining power “to suit [the prosecutor’s] personal notions of justice and fairness.”