{"id":202,"date":"2008-06-26T22:29:28","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T04:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookcountypd.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/26\/he-might-be-unfit-but-hes-your-client-counsel\/"},"modified":"2008-06-26T22:29:28","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T04:29:28","slug":"he-might-be-unfit-but-hes-your-client-counsel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/06\/26\/he-might-be-unfit-but-hes-your-client-counsel\/","title":{"rendered":"He might be unfit, but he&#8217;s your client, counsel."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MORE WORK FOR US<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court of the United States just made more work for us by deciding on 6\/19\/08, in\u00a0<u>Indiana v Edwards<\/u>, 2008 U.S. LEXIS 5031, that a defendant may be fit for trial but not fit to exercise the right to self representation under Faretta v California, 422 U.S.806.\u00a0 Given that most of our judges despise pro-se trials, it is likely that this ruling will lead to court ordered BCX evaluations on the issues of\u00a0 fitness and\u00a0 fitness to exercise the right of self representation, and then the appointment of the PD. \u00a0 Interesting legal and professional\/ethical\u00a0problems will arise during these proceedings; to wit, what should counsel&#8217;s position on these issues be? \u00a0Should we object to the appointment of counsel to preserve the defendant&#8217;s\u00a0Faretta rights?\u00a0 Management probably needs to develop some policies on this which we can look forward to in a couple of years. In the meantime&#8230;well that&#8217;s why they pay us the big bucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MORE WORK FOR US The Supreme Court of the United States just made more work for us by deciding on 6\/19\/08, in\u00a0Indiana v Edwards, 2008 U.S. LEXIS 5031, that a defendant may be fit for trial but not fit to exercise the right to self representation under Faretta v California, 422 U.S.806.\u00a0 Given that most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}