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All Work By Paul Messick

Note Jun 2021 Volume 109No. 3

Represented by a Racist: Why Courts Rarely Grant Relief to Clients of Racist Lawyers

Paul Messick

Courts usually don’t grant habeas claims for criminal defendants who allege that their lawyer’s racism prejudiced their defense unless the racial animus is obvious on the cold trial record. In Ellis v. Harrison, the Ninth Circuit had the opportunity to relax this standard and grant habeas relief to a client of a known racist lawyer, […]

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