Vermont § 5233 - Extent of services

§ 5233. Extent of services

• (a) A needy person who is entitled to be represented by an attorney under section 5231 of this title is entitled: (1) to be counseled and defended at all stages of the matter beginning with the earliest
  time when a person providing the person’s own counsel would be entitled to be represented
  by an attorney and including revocation of probation or parole; (2) to be represented in any appeal; and (3) to be represented in any other postconviction proceeding which may have more than
  a minimal effect on the length or conditions of detention where the attorney considers: (A) the claims, defenses, and other legal contentions to be warranted by existing law
  or by a nonfrivolous argument for the extension, modification, or reversal of existing
  law or the establishment of new law; and (B) the allegations and other factual contentions to have evidentiary support, or likely
  to have evidentiary support after a reasonable opportunity for further investigation
  and discovery. (b) A needy person’s right to a benefit under this section is not affected by having provided
  a similar benefit at the person’s own expense, or by having waived it, at an earlier
  stage. (Added 1971, No. 161 (Adj. Sess.), § 6, eff. date, see note; amended 2003, No. 157 (Adj. Sess.), § 10, eff. June 8, 2004; 2015, No. 137 (Adj. Sess.), § 6, eff. May 25, 2016.)