Kentucky Criminal Defense

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Kentucky Page 4: Federal Court Activity Page 12: BIA Precedent Decisions Page 14: Regulatory Update The Immigration Law Advisor is a professional newsletter of the Executive The 7-2 decision expanded the scope of a criminal defense counsel’s ... Content Retrieval

Senate Moves Closer To Compromise On Gun Background Checks
Nearly four months after the shooting deaths of 20 schoolchildren and six others in Connecticut, the Senate moved closer Wednesday to a vote on a package of gun-related legislation, in… Click to Continue » ... Read News

THE IMPACT OF PADILLA V. KENTUCKY ON THE IMMIGRATION COURTS ...
Kentucky Supreme Court maintained that prior counsel’s failure to advise the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of effective assistance of counsel required criminal defense counsel to advise alien that pleading guilty to an ... Fetch Full Source

PUBLISHED OPINIONS KENTUCKY SUPREME COURT September 2011 I ...
KENTUCKY SUPREME COURT . September 2011 . I. CRIMINAL LAW . A. Kenneth Jones v. Commonwealth of Kentucky . self defense. Over defense objection, the Commonwealth received a “no duty to retreat” jury instruction on behalf of the victim. ... Fetch Full Source

COUNSEL MUST ADVISE THEIR CLIENTS WHEN CRIMINAL CONVICTION ...
Kentucky Supreme Court reversed.6 The court did not accept Padilla’s ineffective assistance of counsel claim under the Sixth Amendment, reasoning that his chance of deportation was only a a criminal defense attorney should not attempt to provide detailed advice ... Access Full Source

Implications Of Padilla V. Kentucky - State Justice Institute
Kentucky on the Duties of State Court Criminal Judges. 1. By Steven Weller and John A. Martin. 2 indigent criminal defense pool; • The judge may select and appoint private counsel to serve as counsel for indigent criminal defendants, paid by the court; or ... Access Doc

The Advocate - E-Archive Of Kentucky Government Information ...
The Kentucky Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers is regarded as a positive and competent source of information by most members of the legislature, even though we often stand alone in our advocacy for citi-zens accused or convicted of crime in this Commonwealth. ... Access Content

Mental Health & Experts Manual
NOTE: In same case Kentucky Supreme Court later granted defendant’s request for a writ of prohibition which reversed trial court’s ruling that the hearing need not be ex parte. for criminal defense lawyers to be trained on the vicissitudes ... Access This Document

CRIMINAL STATUTES RELATED TO - Kentucky: Cabinet For Health ...
Perpetrator’s Possible Defense to Victim’s Lack of Consent. While Kentucky criminal statutes used to forbid the prosecution of a sexual assault committed by one spouse against the other, legislation passed several years ago removed the marital rape exception. ... Fetch This Document

Padilla V. Kentucky: Immigration Consequences Due To The ...
KENTUCKY: IMMIGRATION CONSEQUENCES DUE TO THE INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL EVANGELINE PITTMAN * I. I. NTRODUCTION. When a criminal defense lawyer advises a defendant to plead guilty, the courts are generally concerned with the voluntariness ... View This Document

Kentucky Crime Victim Bill Of Rights Handbook
The role of the defense attorney is to provide representation for an accused person and protect his or her right to a fair trial. The defendant, or his attorney, Criminal Status Information Kentucky Offender Online Lookup (KOOL) ... Read Content

N A T I O N A L IMMIGRATION - National Immigration Project Of ...
Kentucky June 24, 2010 By Dan Kesselbrenner1 I. Overview In Padilla v. Kentucky,2 the Supreme Court held that criminal defense counsel’s failure to advise about immigration consequences falls below accepted professional norms. This practice ... View Document

Robert M. A. Johnson PADILLA KENTUCKY - The Bronx Defenders
KENTUCKY A NEW ERA FOR PLEA BARGAINING AND SENTENCING? Friday, February 25, 2011 9 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. William H. Kniep Courtroom CLE Credits: 5.1 (Missouri) “Scope of Criminal Defense Counsel Obligation Under Padilla ... Fetch Doc

REPORT OF THE PUBLIC ADVOCACY COMMISSION
The President of the Kentucky Association of Criminal Defense lawyers testified that she had been paid only $350 as a conflict lawyer and that the case took so much time the fee did not cover the cost of copying, travel, and collect calls. 8. ... View This Document

Ntally Ill P On Subj Ec T To Th Criminal Ju Ti Ce Sy
Criminal Defense Lawyer The role of the defense attorneys is to represent their clients zealously in defending them from the charges brought against them. Kentucky law is published in the Kentucky Revised Statutes and can be read on ... Retrieve Document

Commonwealth Of Kentucky Court Of Appeals
Defense contained in KRS 503.085. The language in KRS 503.085 is unambiguous. Neither the Kentucky Rules of Criminal Procedure (RCr), nor the Kentucky Rules of Civil Procedure (CR), authorize such jurisdiction. Cf. CR 65.07. Detainers. ... Fetch Document

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Jerry is past president of the Kentucky Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, a member of the Public Ad-vocacy Commission, the Kentucky Supreme Court Criminal Rules Committee and the KBA’s Bar Founda-tion. He is a frequent presenter on criminal defense law ... Doc Viewer