Posted on December 26, 2012. Tags: Adherence, Appellate Court, Appellate Defender, Chap Petersen, Constitutional Right, Constitutional Rights, Court Of Appeals, Criminal Defendants, Criminal Trial, Gideon, Indefinite Detention, Local Courts, Office 1, Party Group, Right To An Attorney, Sixth Amendment, State Laws, State Supreme Court, Supreme Court Issue, Tea Party
People might laugh at this idea, but there are at least three good solid reasons why the Tea Party (I am a member of my local Tea Party group – the Mechanicsville Tea Party!) should support the initiative that Senator Chap Petersen has introduced on the Appellate Defender’s (more details here!) office: 1. The Tea […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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Posted on April 28, 2012. Tags: Acts, Appellate Court, Bill Of Rights, Charles Taylor, Court Proceedings, Crimes, Criminal Responsibility, Distinction, Equality, International Criminal Court, Measures, Minimum Guarantees, Prosecution, Prosecutor, Provisions, Public Hearing, Rules Of Evidence, Secretary General Of The United Nations, Sierra Leone, United Nations
I was misled slightly but materially by one of my sources about the Charles Taylor verdict. I thought it was the International Criminal Court but it is a special court set up by the UN and Sierra Leone instead: A distinction without a difference. The Special Court for Sierra Leone was set up with a […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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Posted on January 25, 2012. Tags: Appellate Court, Appellate Courts, Appellate Defender, Appellate Division, Budget Amendment, Chap Petersen, Commonwealth, Constitution Of The United States, Conviction, Indigent Defense, Pilot Project, Public Defender Commission, Public Defender Office, Public Defender System, Right To An Attorney, State Appeals Court, Tiny Office, Trial Court, Trial Courts, Virginia Supreme Court
I hinted that there was news on the Appellate Defender’s Office front. Now I can openly discuss it! Senator Chap Petersen of Fairfax has introduced a budget amendment (here it is!) to reestablish an Appellate Defender’s Office in this Commonwealth. It’s a tiny office at first, not even one quarter the size of the criminal […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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