Doktorarbeit: Ineffective Assistance of Counsel – Gerichtliche Gewähr und Kontrolle wirksamer Verteidigung in Deutschland und den USA

Ineffective Assistance of Counsel – Gerichtliche Gewähr und Kontrolle wirksamer Verteidigung in Deutschland und den USA

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Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Anwalts- und Notarrecht der Universität Bielefeld, volume 34

Hamburg , 424 pages

ISBN 978-3-339-12646-7 (print) |ISBN 978-3-339-12647-4 (eBook)

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[...] Newerla legt mit seiner Arbeit den Finger in eine nach wie vor offene Wunde des deutschen Strafprozesses.

[...] Sollten die Gerichte jenseits ihrer aktuellen Geringschätzung der formellen Verteidigung [...] einmal bereit sein, den prozessualen Eigenwert des Verteidigerbeistandes anzuerkennen, würde sie bei Newerla eine umfassende Darstellung der nötigen Schritte finden.

Karsten Gaede in: Zeitschrift Strafverteidiger, StV 3 (2023)


About this book deutschenglish

The effectiveness of consel's assistance in a criminal case is a constitutional requirement in Germany and the USA and is also required by the European Convention on Human Rights. If it is not granted in criminal proceedings, there is a risk that the rights of the accused will be ignored. As a result, the defendant may be sentenced to a more severe sanction or - in the worst case - be completely unjustly convicted solely on the basis of the state's violation of the rule of law. In the United States, therefore, it has long been recognized that ineffective assistance of counsel may require reversal of a criminal conviction.

This thesis therefore addresses the questions of how trial courts in both jurisdictions can use procedural law to prevent ineffective defense, how they use these possibilities in practice, and under what circumstances a conviction can be reversed as a result of ineffective assistance of counsel.

The practical relevance of these questions is obvious: The accused is mostly a legal layman and has to tolerate the criminal proceedings against him. However, this duty is also substantially justified by the formal lawfulness of the criminal process. Since German jurisprudence in recent decades has consistently imposed more responsibility on the defense for the formal order of the proceedings, the actual guarantee of effective defense becomes all the more important. The criminal judgment also contains a socio-ethical censure that can hardly be compensated by money, especially in the case of long-term imprisonment. This makes it urgently necessary to examine the practical guarantee of effective defense. The comparative law perspective makes it possible to gain valuable insights, especially with regard to the normative review of defense effectiveness.

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