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Whether a serious threat of violence by the client against the lawyer is a waiver of confidentiality, creation of a personal conflict of interest, and justification for the attorney’s withdrawal.
Whether a conflict of interest has been created by public defenders being legally required disclosure to the court and the prosecutor of the client’s stated intent to choke the prosecutor to death in court and then commit suicide, communicated to them by appellate counsel within the same public defender’s office. The case is back before the trial court, and the inquiring lawyers are counsel of record.
Whether a prosecuting attorney as county attorney under state law may be involved in the management oversight of a public defender's office?
NACDL President Gerald Goldstein's written statement to the Judicial Conference Committee on Long Range Planning regarding the future of the federal courts as laid out in the proposed long-range plan.
Brief of Amicus curiae of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Legal Ethics Professors and Legal Ethics Practitioners In Support of Respondent.
