Ineffective Assistance Seen in Failure To Raise Diminished-Capacity Defense

April 28, 2014 |

Submitted by New Jersey Criminal Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark. Originally published in the NJLawJournal Michael Booth, New Jersey Law Journal A woman who pleaded guilty to infanticide was entitled to an evidentiary hearing on her claim that her lawyer should have argued diminished capacity due to her own history of sexual abuse as a child, a…

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