Ronnie's final declaration caught her off-balance; she'd been imagining herself as the judge, looming over Raffa as incompetent counsel.

You ask me, these guys have incompetent legal counsel.

The Republican Congress cut off funds for a handful of resource centers that provided lawyers for prisoners on death row, many of whom had been represented by incompetent counsel.

But all of the judges agreed that the defendant had incompetent counsel.

He owes her the favor of taking her case if for no other reason than to provide her with the ironclad appeal of incompetent counsel.

In the absence of any competence standards for death penalty lawyers, such a restriction would aggravate the widespread problem of incompetent counsel.

But there is nothing trivial about being represented by incompetent or inexperienced counsel in a trial for your life.

His co-defendants vehemently disagreed with this decision, and the judge warned Persico that he would be waiving "incompetent counsel" as the grounds for an appeal.

After his conviction, Ferguson was put in the position to argue in appellate briefs that he had incompetent counsel (himself).

If they are claiming incompetent counsel for the defense, we are not responsible.