Hale v. Brewster

How courts have described this case

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• defendant must be given opportunity to express why sentence “should not be pronounced against him and why he should have leniency”
• court-appointed attorney had duty to accept payment from court for representation as sole compensation; if client’s note was given to attorney as fee for services, attorney was already bound to perform and client had a valid defense to action by attorney on the note
• court-appointed attorney had duty to accept payment from court for representation as sole compensation; if client's note was given to attorney as fee for services, attorney was already bound to perform and client had a valid defense to action by attorney on the note

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).