Michigan Post-Conviction Practice and Procedure

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• Michigan Post-Conviction Practice and Procedure
  
• Scope of Discussion
  
• Historical Overview
  
• Research Aids
  
• Exclusivity of 6.500?
  
• Newly Discovered Evidence Motion
  
• Prosecution Post-Conviction Remedies
  
• The Trial Court Process
  
• Mandatory Contents
  
• Mandatory Contents (Continued)
  
• The Contents
  
• Filing & Hearing Procedures
  
• Defense Drafting Strategies
  
• Response Strategies
  
• Judicial Perspective
  
• Getting a Ruling
  
• Cause & Its Exceptions
  
• Definition of Cause
  
• Things Which Have Been Found to Be “Cause”
  
• Ineffective Assistance of Counsel (Easy Issues)
  
• Ineffective Assistance of Counsel (Issue Selection)
  
• Ineffective Assistance Tips
  
• Cause Exceptions:
  
• Jurisdictional Defects
  
• Examples of Jurisdictional Defects
  
• Prejudice
  
• Trial Prejudice
  
• Actual Prejudice - Plea
  
• “Actual Prejudice - Sentencing”
  
• Robinson Errors
  
• Examples of Robinson Errors
  
• Examples of Structural Errors
  
• Law of the Case
  
• Successive Motions
  
• Exceptions to Successive Motions Bar
  
• Top Five List of 6.500 Losers
  
• The Future of 6.500

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