Jepson v. Stubbs

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that the setting aside of a judgment of conviction is not a condition to maintaining a suit for malpractice arising from criminal representation
• concluding that the setting aside of a judgment of conviction is not a condition to maintaining a suit for malpractice arising from criminal representation
• confronting a plaintiff who had obtained post-conviction relief, but stating directly that there is no difference between civil and criminal malpractice cases
• explaining that, like plaintiff in civil malpractice case, who would not be collaterally estopped from bringing action by judgment that he was negligent, plaintiff in criminal malpractice case would not be collaterally estopped from bringing action by judgment of conviction
• confronting a plaintiff who had obtained post-conviction relief, but stating directly that there is no difference between civil and criminal malpractice cases
• Court will not rewrite statutes;“[i]f that is be done, it must be by legislative action”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).