{"id":2916,"date":"2022-07-14T06:32:20","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T13:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/?p=2916"},"modified":"2022-08-29T09:32:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T16:32:30","slug":"rules-of-professional-conduct-comment-period-closes-august-28-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/2022\/07\/14\/rules-of-professional-conduct-comment-period-closes-august-28-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Rules of Professional Conduct &#8211; Comment Period Closed August 28, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2022\/07\/RPC01.16.For-Comment.pdf\">RPC01.16.<\/a> <b>Declining or terminating representation.\u00a0<\/b>AMEND. In accordance with\u00a0<i>Strickland v. Washington<\/i>, 466 U.S. 668 (1984),\u00a0<i>Roe v. Flores-Ortega<\/i>, 528 U.S 470 (2000), and\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.americanbar.org\/groups\/criminal_justice\/standards\/DefenseFunctionFourthEdition\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.americanbar.org\/groups\/criminal_justice\/standards\/DefenseFunctionFourthEdition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.americanbar.org\/groups\/criminal_justice\/standards\/DefenseFunctionFourthEdition\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1657891634557000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0jUUwFLj87nlgYGQntnJ8Q\">ABA Standard 4-9.1<\/a>, codifies in new paragraph (e) the ethical obligation of defense counsel to secure a criminal defendant&#8217;s right to appeal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2022\/07\/RPC08.04c.For-Comment.pdf\">RPC08.04(c).<\/a> <b>Misconduct.\u00a0<\/b>AMEND. Codifies in new paragraph (2)\u00a0Ethics Advisory Opinion\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.utahbar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2002-05.pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/www.utahbar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2002-05.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.utahbar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2002-05.pdf&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1657891634557000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1oyHj0DZa0j1M06lqp40Hn\">02-05<\/a>, which concluded that 8.4(1)(c) (conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation) does not apply to government attorneys overseeing an otherwise legal undercover criminal investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RPC01.16. Declining or terminating representation.\u00a0AMEND. In accordance with\u00a0Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984),\u00a0Roe v. Flores-Ortega, 528 U.S 470 (2000), and\u00a0ABA Standard 4-9.1, codifies in new paragraph (e) the ethical obligation of defense counsel to secure a criminal defendant&#8217;s right to appeal. RPC08.04(c). Misconduct.\u00a0AMEND. Codifies in new paragraph (2)\u00a0Ethics Advisory Opinion\u00a002-05, which concluded that 8.4(1)(c) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[630,143,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rules-of-professional-conduct","category-rpc01-16","category-rpc08-04"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 03:18:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2958,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916\/revisions\/2958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}