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Frye v. Missouri and the Rights of Due Process

 

This is called the two prong standard and it is to ensure the attorneys protection so they cannot be targeted every time the defendant receives an unfavorable outcome. First, the counsel must be proven to have made detrimental errors that were not up to reasonable standard. .
             Secondly, the defendant must show that his or her attorney's performance exemplified prejudice. To make certain of the second requirement, it must be proven that without these unprofessional errors, the trial's outcome would have been altered in the defendants favor. The reasonable effectiveness of counsel is during all aspects of the criminal proceedings and not just during trial. This consists of the time before and after the trial and under Powell v. Alabama, 287 U.S. 45, 57 the court determined that the counsel's assistance is most important during the time of arraignment until the beginning of trial. Also under Rompilla v. Beard, 545 U.S. 374, 380 the court guarantees the right to effective assistance during the sentencing period of the proceedings as well as the appellate stage post trial under Evitts v. Lucey, 469 U.S. 387, 396. This is because an appeal, similarly to the trial, is "an adversary proceeding that is governed by intricate rules that to a layperson would be hopelessly forbidding. .
             The 6th amendment protects the honesty of criminal prosecutions and not just the trials. In Kimmelman v. Morrison,477 U.S. 380 the court determined that effective counsel does not just apply to the innocent or that it only applies to issues that affect the certainty of actual guilt. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals held, "the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel guarantees more than the Fifth Amendment right to a fair trial " United States v. Day, 969 F.2d 39, 45.
             Galin E. Frye has had constant trouble with the law. This case originally stemmed from Mr. Frye being charged with driving while his license was revoked in August of 2007 and he was appointed a public defender, Michael Coles.


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