Estate of Jamis Lott v. O'Neill
Annotate this CaseDefendant was charged with aggravated murder and two counts of murder in the second degree in the deaths of two men. Plaintiff was the estate of one of the deceased men, which brought a wrongful death action on behalf of the next of kin. In its filing, plaintiff obtained an attachment freezing defendant’s assets, including the retainer she provided for her criminal defense. In an interlocutory appeal, the issue presented for the Supreme Court’s review was whether the Sixth Amendment right to assistance of counsel was violated when the plaintiff in a civil wrongful death action attaches funds the defendant intends to use for her legal defense to homicide charges stemming from the death at issue in the civil case. Defendant appealed a trial court decision permitting such an attachment. Finding no reversible error, the Supreme Court affirmed.
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