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Creating Space For Lawyers To Be Ethical: Driving Towards An Ethic Of Transparency, Burnele V. Powell
Creating Space For Lawyers To Be Ethical: Driving Towards An Ethic Of Transparency, Burnele V. Powell
Hofstra Law Review
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A Grand Slam Of Professional Irresponsibility And Judicial Disregard, Stephen A. Saltzburg
A Grand Slam Of Professional Irresponsibility And Judicial Disregard, Stephen A. Saltzburg
Hofstra Law Review
Many examples of bad lawyering and indifferent judicial responses to bad lawyering concern those who seek to raise the standards of professional conduct and assure adequate legal representation for all clients. This article discusses one case (a death penalty prosecution of William Charles Payton for rape, murder and attempted murder in 1981) to illustrate just how poor the performance of lawyers can be and how largely indifferent judges often are to such performances. With the defendant's life on the line, it appears that none of the legally trained professionals at trial did what professional standards required of them. The prosecutor …