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"Court limits appeals; State's justices rule against free legal representation for cases between 1994 and 2005"

"Court limits appeals; State's justices rule against free legal representation for cases between 1994 and 2005": The Detroit News today contains an article that begins, "Poor defendants who want to appeal a case after they pleaded guilty or no contest cannot get free legal representation if they were convicted between 1994 and 2005, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled Monday. The U.S. Supreme Court in 2005 struck down as unconstitutional a Michigan law that barred the right to an appellate attorney for defendants who pleaded guilty or no contest. On Monday, the state's High Court ruled that the U.S. Supreme Court's decision three years ago applies only to defendants who were convicted after the federal ruling, or before the law barring automatic appeals went into effect in 1994."

And The Associated Press provides a report headlined "Mich. court: Ruling on legal aid not retroactive."

You can access yesterday's ruling of the Supreme Court of Michigan at this link.

Full post as published by How Appealing on December 23, 2008 (boomark / email).