Stephens v. Denison

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that criminal defendant may not maintain a cause of action against counsel for legal malpractice absent exoneration from his conviction and sentence through postconviction relief
• exoneration is a pre-requisite for maintaining client's legal malpractice action against his defense counsel
• exoneration is a pre-requisite for maintaining client’s legal malpractice action against his defense counsel

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).