This column addresses how using artificial intelligence in the criminal justice system may be unfairly prejudicial to defendants and violates their constitutional right to effective assistance of ...

For the first time, Colorado's second-highest court has recognized there is a right to effective assistance of counsel for people involved in criminal cases whom the government wishes to forcibly ...

An Illinois man lost his bid to undo tax fraud convictions after a federal appeals court said he failed to show ineffective assistance of counsel.

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — A man found guilty of aggravated assault against a law enforcement officer was denied effective assistance of legal counsel, and his conviction and sentence must be vacated, ...

Related video above from 2021: What happens when the criminal justice system gets it wrong?The Supreme Court said Monday that state prisoners may not present new evidence in federal court in support ...

The high court’s unanimous decisions in Seamus Coyle v. State and Harry Davis, Jr. v. State, were both authored by Justice Shirley Watts. (The Daily Record/File Photo) In a pair of rulings Wednesday, ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., joined Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., to introduce the Effective Assistance of Counsel in the Digital Era Act to protect the confidentiality of email ...

The US Supreme Court Monday ruled 6-3 in Shinn v. Ramirez that “a federal habeas court may not conduct an evidentiary hearing or otherwise consider evidence beyond the state-court record based on the ...

"The city's refusal to timely pay counsel fees and legally mandated statutory interest is pervasive for court appointed attorneys in Philadelphia," one attorney wrote in a motion for contempt. "This ...

Story update Aug. 5, 2022: This story was updated to reflect the latest jury decision on damages owed by Jones to the parents of a Sandy Hook victim that was decided on Aug. 5. On Aug. 4, far-right ...

The Supreme Court said Monday that state prisoners may not present new evidence in federal court in support of a claim that their post-conviction counsel in state court was ineffective in violation of ...