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Fraud Negates Criminal Defendant’s Right to Effective Counsel


— June 30, 2003

“A criminal defendant who gives her lawyer fraudulent documents to be used at her trial forfeits her right to “effective assistance of counsel,” the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled,” The Legal Intelligencer reports here.

Read the Third Circuit’s opinion in United States v. Lamplugh. (PDF)


“A criminal defendant who gives her lawyer fraudulent documents to be used at her trial forfeits her right to “effective assistance of counsel,” the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled,” The Legal Intelligencer reports here.

Read the Third Circuit’s opinion in United States v. Lamplugh. (PDF)

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