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Guaranteeing English more years of life, albeit on death row, while appeals continue.

• algorithmsRcool 9y ago
  English is the Lawyer, McCoy is the defendant.
• _jal 9y ago
  Irrelevant side-effect. Or are you arguing that was intentional strategy on the part of the lawyer? In any case, a lawyer is supposed to act as one's agent, and in this case, it certainly appears that the attorney in question was acting incompetently when not directly contradicting the defendant's desires. As frequently happens, this will probably turn on what amounts to courtroom etiquette. Should the defendant have fired the lawyer "earlier", given no clear definition of "earlier"? Edit: was told my irony was too subtle. That last sentence could be rewritten as, "should a defendant whose council is not actually representing the defendant correctly be required to sufficiently understand legal procedure as to accurately intuit undefined deadlines that have emerged through caselaw on their own, from prison, in order to replace the rogue council?" Kafka would only grade this a C, I think.