Taking the Money for the Lawyer

In Kaley v. United States the United States Supreme Court will decide whether, when a post-indictment, ex parte restraining order freezes assets needed by a criminal defendant to retain counsel of choice, the Fifth and Sixth Amendments require a pre-trial, adversarial hearing at which the defendant may challenge the evidentiary support and legal theory of the underlying charges.

 

The oral argument can be found here, and here (transcript).

 

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