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Trial after trial after trial not automatically unconstitutional.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

 Bill of Rights. (From the public domain.) A colleague once suggested that the risks of being sufficiently paid for one's time for drawn-out federal drug conspiracy defense work are often too high unless the work is done by court appointment under the Criminal Justice Act. A simple-enough-looking drug conspiracy indictment can grow multiple hydra heads. Down the pike can come superseding indictments adding multiple new criminal counts and multiple new criminal defendants, and, therefore, the prospect of a lengthier trial, more voluminous discovery (often dumped on the defense in the thousands of pages -- with court agreement -- too close to the trial date to sufficiently review all the discovery) and many more hours of motions, trial preparation, and keeping track of which co-defendants fold and snitch...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on February 16, 2009 (boomark / email).