Michael Skakel and Martha Moxley
As the saying goes, if your lawyer has a pulse, it’s not ineffective assistance of counsel. Unless you’re Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel, who just had his conviction for murdering Martha Moxley in 1975 overturned.
May 07, 2018 at 11:26 AM
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Editor and columnist at The Litigation Daily
Did you hear about the lawyer who slept through most of his client’s cross examination? That was not deemed ineffective assistance of counsel.
Or the lawyer who drank in the morning, during court recess and in the evening each day of trial, and who was arrested while driving to court with a .27 percent blood-alcohol level? Also not ineffective assistance of counsel.
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