Adam Liptak considers an Alabama capital case where the client is being prevented from challenging his conviction and sentence in federal court because of his "less than punctilious" lawyer's filing errors. This piece continues Liptak's agency-themed examination of the attorney-client relationship, which Liptak has developed elsewhere, including in his recent Michigan Law Review article, Agency and Equity: Why Do We Blame Clients for Their Lawyers' Mistakes?
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