{"id":346,"date":"2009-03-10T21:18:13","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T03:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookcountypd.org\/blog\/?p=346"},"modified":"2009-03-11T11:36:48","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T17:36:48","slug":"supreme-court-reverses-vermont-v-brillon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/10\/supreme-court-reverses-vermont-v-brillon\/","title":{"rendered":"SUPREMES DECIDE VERMONT v. BRILLON&#8230;PDs Win&#8230;PD client loses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In a crisp opinion delivered by Justice Ginsburg, joined by six other\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1236743424_0\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Justices<\/span>, the Court held on 3\/9\/09, that delay\u00a0caused by appointed counsel&#8217;s requests for continuances, over her client&#8217;s objections, are not attributable to the State for\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1236743424_1\" class=\"yshortcuts\">speedy trial purposes<\/span>.\u00a0&#8220;Once a lawyer has undertaken the representation of an accused, the duties and obligations are the same whether the lawyer is privately retained, appointed, or serving in a\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1236743424_2\" class=\"yshortcuts\">legal aid<\/span> or defender program&#8221;. \u00a0Disagreeing with the\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1236743424_3\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Vermont Supreme Court<\/span>, Ginsburg et. al. held that &#8220;assigned counsel&#8217;s failure to move the case forward does not warrant attribution of delay to the State&#8221; and &#8220;assigned counsel generally are not\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1236743424_4\" class=\"yshortcuts\">state actors<\/span> for purposes of a\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1236743424_5\" class=\"yshortcuts\">speedy trial<\/span> claim.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><span id=\"lw_1236743424_6\" class=\"yshortcuts\">The Court<\/span> did, however, \u00a0leave open the possibility that its rule was not absolute, stating &#8220;[d]elay resulting from a &#8216;systematic breakdown in the\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1236743424_7\" class=\"yshortcuts\">public defender system&#8217; <\/span>could be charged to the State&#8221; if such facts were of record, but &#8220;the Vermont Supreme Court made no [such] determination . . . &#8220;<\/div>\n<div>Read the full opinion by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourtus.gov\/opinions\/08pdf\/08-88.pdf\">this<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a crisp opinion delivered by Justice Ginsburg, joined by six other\u00a0Justices, the Court held on 3\/9\/09, that delay\u00a0caused by appointed counsel&#8217;s requests for continuances, over her client&#8217;s objections, are not attributable to the State for\u00a0speedy trial purposes.\u00a0&#8220;Once a lawyer has undertaken the representation of an accused, the duties and obligations are the same whether [&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-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","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=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}