Did you know your constitutional “right to representation” can be revoked?

 There is a well-kept secret in the federal criminal justice system. Although it is true that the constitutional right to a criminal defense attorney so as to ensure basic fairness is a fundamental right during criminal proceedings—even if the accused cannot afford their own representation—when prisoners are most vulnerable and their need for an attorney is most acute, they are stripped of that right and left to fend for themselves in court.

That is, at the critical post-conviction stages of criminal proceedings, federal prisoners do not have a constitutional right to an attorney (not even in capital cases), forcing them to overlook legitimate legal errors that resulted in injustice—the degree of injustice ranging from one end of the spectrum to the other. (Nor does a prisoner have the right to file a legal brief in the U.S. Supreme Court, which comes after the initial appeal.)

This forces layman prisoners to serve as their own attorneys by filing futile, ill-prepared, grossly deficient legal briefs that are essentially laughed out of court, leaving them floundering without any further recourse.

This leaves many prisoners to languish in prison under illegal sentences, simply because they do not have money for their own attorney. 

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