When the government freezes the money that an indicted criminal defendant needs to hire a lawyer, he or she should be able to challenge that indictment during a pretrial hearing, a Miami attorney argued to the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday.
“I ask that this Court not rule that the government can beggar a defendant into submission,” urged Howard Srebnick of Miami’s Black, Srebnick, Kornspan & Stumpf. “I ask this Court not to rule that the government can impoverish someone without giving them a chance to be heard through their counsel of choice.”
