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		<title>Technology in Appellate Law Practice &#8211; Article in ACDLA Publication &#8220;The Guardian&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://williampfeifer.com/2011/11/08/15/08/46/about-com/technology-in-appellate-law-practice-article-in-acdla-publication-the-guardian/1095</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William L. Pfeifer, Jr.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alabama attorneys who want to use iPads and other technological advances in their law practices may be interested in reading my new article, Technology in Appellate Law Practice. The article appears in the 4th Quarter issue of The Guardian, the newsletter of the Alabama Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (ACDLA). The article is not currently available [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Withdraw a Guilty Plea in Alabama</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 04:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As an Alabama appellate lawyer, I often encounter people who want to withdraw their guilty plea in a criminal case. These defendants often say they showed up to go to trial on their criminal charges, only to have their lawyer pressure them into taking a plea bargain at the last minute. After having a little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marshall County Appeal of Sex Offense Conviction Frees Client Despite Guilty Plea Due to Expired Statute of Limitations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 05:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William L. Pfeifer, Jr.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Marshall County appellate case handled by our office recently demonstrated the importance of checking the statute of limitations on any felony charge in Alabama before accepting a plea bargain or pleading guilty. Normally I avoid getting into too many details of the specific appeals handled by our office, but some of the particular facts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hearsay in Probation Revocation Cases &#8211; Admissible but Not Enough</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 15:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William L. Pfeifer, Jr.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An issue that comes up fairly often in probation revocation cases in Alabama is the use of hearsay evidence. Criminal defense lawyers often get confused about the role of hearsay in a probation revocation hearing because hearsay evidence is admissible. While hearsay is inadmissible in most settings, a judge has the discretion to listen to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Cops Lie in Court, Do Trial Judges and Appellate Courts Let Them Get Away with It?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a cop lies in court, do trial judges and appellate courts let them get away with it? It appears that in many cases, the answer is yes. Unless it is absolutely proven that the cop was lying, trial judges usually put their rubber stamp on what the cop says. When the case goes up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Effective assistance of counsel includes accurate advice about the immigration consequences of a guilty plea (Alabama Rule 32)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States Supreme Court recently held that an attorney's duty to provide effective assistance of counsel includes the responsibility of providing accurate advice about the immigration consequences of a guilty plea.  Providing incorrect legal advice to an immigrant about the deportation consequences of a guilty plea to drug trafficking charges constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel, and can serve as grounds for setting aside a guilty plea.  In Alabama, such a petition would be raised under Rule 32 of the Alabama Rules of Criminal Procedure, which provides Alabama's method for asserting that a defendant received ineffective assistance of counsel.]]></description>
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		<title>Rule 32 of the Alabama Rules of Criminal Procedure</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recent weeks, our office has been contacted more and more by people looking for information about filing a claim against their attorney under Rule 32 of the Alabama Rules of Criminal Procedure.  Not to be confused with Rule 32 of the Alabama Rules of Judicial Administration which deals with child support, Rule 32 of the Alabama Rules of Criminal Procedure provides a method for defendants to challenge their conviction in a trial court.  It is normally filed after a defendant has already lost his or her direct appeal of a conviction, though appealing a conviction is not mandatory before filing a Rule 32 petition in most cases.

We have posted several articles about Rule 32 petitions on this blog, but we have not previously posted a copy of Rule 32 itself.  Since so many people seem to be looking for information about Rule 32 petitions, we thought it would be useful to place a copy of the rule itself on our website.

The following is a copy of Rule 32 in it's entirety, including all of the subsections of the Rule and the committee comments issued concerning the Rule.   The general form which the rules say a petition should follow is also included in an appendix to the rule.  For more information about filing a Rule 32 petition in your own case, please call me at (800) 737-3702 Extension 1 or fill out the Contact form on our site to send me an email message online.]]></description>
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		<title>Using Rule 32 to set aside a guilty plea in Alabama &#8211; Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the second in a series of articles on using Rule 32 of the Alabama Rules of Criminal Procedure to set aside a guilty plea. To read Part 1, click here. A defendant who enters an involuntary or coerced guilty plea has the right to petition the court to set aside his plea and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Rule 32 to set aside a guilty plea conviction in Alabama &#8211; Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people are familiar with using Rule 32 of the Alabama Rules of Criminal Procedure to attempt to obtain a new jury trial in Alabama after being convicted in a criminal trial.  Not as many people are aware that, in some limited circumstances, Rule 32 may also be used to set aside a conviction after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New updates coming this week.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week we launched a major revision of our website, www.WilliamPfeifer.com.  The main pages of the old site have been migrated over to the new system, though some of the pages are still having some quirks.  Some resource pages of the old site are still appearing under the old website design, but that will be [...]]]></description>
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