Lawyer who didn’t know about permissible expert-witness fee was ineffective, SCOTUS says
By EsqSocial Corporation 24/02/14
A lawyer who was unaware that Alabama no longer capped expert-witness fees at $500 provided constitutionally deficient representation to his client, the U.S. Supreme Court has found. In a summary disposition, the court sent the case of death-row inmate Anthony Ray Hinton back to a lower court to determine whether…