Brief Bank
Below are amicus briefs either filed by the Innocence Network, or by individual Network project members, on issues that have been endorsed by the Innocence Network Board of Directors.
Issue: Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
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- Access to Post-Conviction DNA Testing
- New Evidence of Innocence
- Electronic Recording of Custodial Interrogations Eyewitness Identification
- Electronic Recording of Custodial Interrogations
- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
- Eyewitness Identification
- Unreliable Forensic Science
- Other Issues
- Police and Prosecutorial Misconduct
- Actual Innocence
Jasin, Thomas P. v. Michael Best & Friedrich (2007)
Counsel: Innocence Network, by Weil, Gotshal & Manges
Court: Wisconsin Court of Appeals
Case Number: 2006AP002647
Position: - The statute of limitations on civil claims against trial counsel for ineffective assistance of counsel should begin to run when exoneree is officially exonerated, not when he or she first discovers grounds to believe counsel was ineffective.
Issues:
Ineffective Assistance of Counsel