The military provides an accused facing court-martial with a qualified defense attorney.

In the United States, Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and similar state rules require that an attorney perform a due diligence investigation concerning the factual basis for any claim or defense.

Jurisdictions differ on whether a claim or defense can be frivolous if the attorney acted in good faith.

The picture on the right, of Dyleski in the ninth grade, which shows him in makeup and long hair, was criticized by Ellen Leonida | his defense attorney as unfair and misleading, because by fall 2006 Dyleski's appearance had become more conservative and mainstream.

He compliments guest star Andre Braugher who portrays defense attorney Bayard Ellis.

* The issue of competency is whether a defendant is able to adequately assist his attorney in preparing a defense, make informed decisions about trial strategy and whether or not to plead guilty or accept a plea agreement.

In one study, results gathered from 144 six-person juries indicated that when juries are in receipt of jury nullification information from the judge or defense attorney they are more likely to acquit a sympathetic defendant and judge a dangerous defendant more harshly than when such information is not present or when challenges are made to nullification arguments.

Harvey A. Silverglate, a prominent defense attorney who represented Milken during the appellate process, disputes that view in his book Three Felonies a Day: “ Milken ’ s biggest problem was that some of his most ingenious but entirely lawful maneuvers were viewed, by those who initially did not understand them, as felonious, precisely because they were novel – and often extremely profitable .”

McVeigh's attorney, Stephen Jones, filed a motion to delay the demolition until the defense team could examine the site in preparation for the trial.

The mysterious deaths, murder conviction of Duane (“ Buck ”) Walker ( aka Wesley G. Walker ) and acquittal of his girlfriend, Stephanie Stearns, made headlines nationwide and led to a best-selling account written by Stearns's defense attorney, Vincent Bugliosi, and Bruce B. Henderson in the true crime book And the Sea Will Tell.

Agency problems sometimes arise in plea bargaining in that although the prosecutor represents the people and the defense attorney represents the defendant, these agents ' goals may be far from congruent with those of their principals.

A defense attorney often receives a flat fee or in any event will not receive enough additional money if he goes to trial to cover the costs of doing so ; this can create an incentive to plea bargain, even at the expense of the defense attorney's client's interests.

The defense attorney, Steven Feldman, “ may be as despised in San Diego as his client ”.

In many cases, the threat of a RICO indictment can force defendants to plead guilty to lesser charges, in part because the seizure of assets would make it difficult to pay a defense attorney.

William Jennings Bryan, three-time presidential candidate for the Democrats, argued for the prosecution, while Clarence Darrow, the famed defense attorney, spoke for Scopes.

However, John R. Neal, a law school professor from Knoxville, announced that he would act as Scopes ' attorney whether Scopes liked it or not, and he became the nominal head of the defense team.

After many changes back and forth, the defense team consisted of Darrow, ACLU attorney Arthur Garfield Hays, and Dudley Field Malone, an international divorce lawyer who had worked at the State Department.

His attorney concluded his defense by playing the movie for the jury.

James Wilson wrote the original draft of this section, and he was involved as a defense attorney for some accused of treason against the Patriot cause.

) Daugherty's famous defense attorney, Max D. Steuer, blamed all corruption allegations brought against Daugherty on Jess Smith, an aide at the Justice Department who had committed suicide.

Two of his foster brothers served as major generals in the Union Army during the Civil War: Hugh Boyle Ewing, later an ambassador and author, and Thomas Ewing, Jr., who would serve as defense attorney in the military trials against the Lincoln conspirators.

Usually, it can be issued by a judge or by the lawyer representing the plaintiff or the defendant in a civil trial or by the prosecutor or the defense attorney in a criminal proceeding.

* Criminal defense attorney

A disproportionate share of state court judges previously served as prosecutors, or less commonly as criminal defense attorneys or trial lawyers, although no particular background as an attorney is required to serve as a judge.

A month later, in The Publick Spirit Of The Whigs, he used Steele's defense of Molesworth as evidence of his disrespect for the clergy, calling Steele's position an affront to the `` whole Convocation of Ireland ''.

Meanwhile, other air defense forces are being made effective, as described later in this message.

Production was later taken over by Raytheon Corporation ( RAYCO ) when it purchased the defense production business of Texas Instruments.

Alexandria, whose defense was organized under Diocletian's former corrector Aurelius Achilleus, held out until a later date, probably March 298.

2004 ), the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit the court ruled persons found not guilty by reason of insanity and later want to challenge their confinement may not attack their initial successful insanity defense:

Following the tension of Game Six, the Cardinals pitching and defense came undone in Game 7 and their offense was shut down by Saberhagen leading to the lowest batting average to date (. 188 by the Cardinals, later broken by 2001 Yankees ) and fewest runs ( 13 for the Cardinals, still stands ) of any team in a 7 game series, and the Royals won 11 – 0 to clinch the franchise's only World Series title.

In 1878 the Supreme Court ruled in Reynolds v. United States that religious duty was not a suitable defense for practicing polygamy, and many Mormons went into hiding ; later, Congress began seizing church assets.

In Milgram's defense, 84 percent of former participants surveyed later said they were " glad " or " very glad " to have participated, 15 percent chose neutral responses ( 92 % of all former participants responding ).

Herzog would later say of Smith's contributions that, " If he saved two runs a game on defense, which he did many a night, it seemed to me that was just as valuable to the team as a player who drove in two runs a game on offense.

Mainly because of Clarence Darrow, this strategy changed as the trial progressed, and the earliest argument proposed by the defense once the trial had begun was that there was actually no conflict between evolution and the creation account in the Bible ; later, this viewpoint would be called theistic evolution.

Several plays later, the Broncos drove to a first down at the New York's 1-yard line, but Giants defense made a key defensive stand.

The British failure at the Battle of Baltimore is a turning point in the war, and the American defense of the fort inspires Francis Scott Key to compose the poem later set to music as The Star-Spangled Banner.

One hundred years later, in Germany the protests erupted simultaneously, whilst under threat of Islamic Ottoman invasion ¹, which especially distracted the German princes responsible for military defense.

The defense group, centered around Fort Wayne, IN, remained independent under the Magnavox Electronic Systems name, first under Philips and later in the Carlyle Group, until it was acquired by Hughes Electronics in 1995.

Germanicus later, in 15, raided their lands in revenge, but Rome eventually responded to the Chatti's belligerent defense of their independence by building the limes border fortifications along the southern boundary of their lands in central Hesse during the early years of the 1st century.

History professor Antonio Santosuosso puts forth an opinion on Charles, Tours, and the subsequent campaigns against Rahman's son in 736-737, presenting that these later defeats of invading Muslim armies were at least as important as Tours in their defense of Western Christendom and the preservation of Western monasticism, the monasteries of which were the centers of learning which ultimately led Europe out of her Middle Ages.

Two years later, in 1785, Lenormand coined the word " parachute " by hybridizing the prefix para -, for " defense against ," and chute, the French word for " fall ," to describe the device's function, the word literally meaning " that which protects against a fall.

In Freud's original formulation the latent dream-thought was described as having been subject to an intra-psychic force referred to as " the censor "; in the more refined terminology of his later years, however, discussion was in terms of the super-ego and " the work of the ego's forces of defense.

After achieving power Mao later purged or demoted those who had opposed him in 1932, but remembered Zhou's defense of his policies.

" A year later in the Senate ( January 10, 1838 ), Calhoun repeated this defense of slavery as a " positive good ": " Many in the South once believed that it was a moral and political evil ; that folly and delusion are gone ; we see it now in its true light, and regard it as the most safe and stable basis for free institutions in the world.

Nixon, who hailed from the Southwest, was initially backed by the military industrial defense contractor power-brokers ( the Cowboys ); however, he later wanted to jump ship and return government to the east-coast establishment of Yankees.

The defense of greed is a paraphrase of the May 18, 1986, commencement address at the UC Berkeley's School of Business Administration, delivered by arbitrageur Ivan Boesky ( who himself was later convicted of insider-trading charges ), in which he said, " Greed is all right, by the way.

Originally, Freud used the word ego to mean a sense of self, but later revised it to mean a set of psychic functions such as judgment, tolerance, reality testing, control, planning, defense, synthesis of information, intellectual functioning, and memory.

Assistant attorney general Paul Wilson — later distinguished emeritus professor of law at the University of Kansas — conducted the state's ambivalent defense in his first appellate trial.