No. 18-640
Nicholas Bernard Acklin v. Alabama
Amici (2)
Tags: attorney-client-relationship conflict-of-interest criminal-defense death-penalty fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment third-party-payment
Latest Conference:
2019-03-22
Question Presented (from Petition)
Whether a criminal defendant is deprived of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to conflict-free counsel when his lawyer is paid by a third party; the third party threatens to withhold payment unless the lawyer conducts the defense in a manner that serves the third party's interests; the lawyer does not inform his client or the court of the conflict; and the lawyer in fact conducts the defense in a manner that serves the third party payer's interests and sacrifices the client's interests.
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether a criminal defendant is deprived of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to conflict-free counsel
Docket Entries
2019-03-25
Petition DENIED.
2019-03-06
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/22/2019.
2019-03-01
Reply of petitioner Nicholas Bernard Acklin filed.
2019-02-15
Brief of respondent State of Alabama in opposition filed.
2019-01-03
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including February 15, 2019.
2018-12-28
Motion to extend the time to file a response from January 16, 2019 to February 15, 2019, submitted to The Clerk.
2018-12-17
Brief amici curiae of Legal Ethics Scholars filed.
2018-12-17
Brief amici curiae of Alabama Appellate Court Justices and Bar Presidents filed.
2018-12-04
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including January 16, 2019.
2018-11-26
Motion to extend the time to file a response from December 17, 2018 to January 16, 2019, submitted to The Clerk.
2018-11-09
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 17, 2018)
2018-08-21
Application (18A190) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until November 12, 2018.
2018-08-13
Application (18A190) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from September 13, 2018 to November 12, 2018, submitted to Justice Thomas.
Attorneys
Alabama Appellate Court Justices and Bar Presidents
Lisa Wright Borden — Baker Donelson, et al, Amicus
Legal Ethics Scholars
Nicholas Bernard Acklin
Patrick Mark Mulvaney — Southern Center for Human Rights, Petitioner
State of Alabama
Edmund Gerard LaCour Jr. — Office of the Attorney General, Respondent