Court Findings of Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Claims in Post-Conviction Appeals

URL

https://www.innocenceproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Innocence_Project_IAC_Report.pdf

Gideon v. Wainwright and the Right to Counsel (May 10, 2017)

URL

https://www.c-span.org/video/?428269-1/gideon-v-wainwright-counsel

How Americans Lost the Right to Counsel

URL

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/03/how-americans-lost-the-right-to-counsel-50-years-after-gideon/273433/

Pretrial Procedures in a Criminal Court

URL

https://www.ilnd.uscourts.gov/judge-cmp-detail.aspx?cmpid=849

Rumsfeld v. Padilla, 542 U.S. 426 (2004)

URL

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/03-1027.ZO.html

Effective Assistance of Counsel

Question: Do you believe the right to counsel is a meaningful one, given the interpretation it has received by the Supreme Court?  Is the definition of “effective assistance of counsel” too restrictive?  Why or Why not?  Use relevant case law to support your position.