{"id":163926,"date":"2026-09-29T11:04:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T19:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=163926"},"modified":"2026-09-29T11:04:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T19:04:38","slug":"retainer-co-counsel-fee-agreements-valid-in-post-conviction-efforts-federal-judge-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/29\/retainer-co-counsel-fee-agreements-valid-in-post-conviction-efforts-federal-judge-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Retainer, Co-Counsel Fee Agreements Valid in Post-Conviction Efforts, Federal Judge Says"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Gibson’s criminal proceedings had long since concluded and he and his attorneys were pursuing post-conviction proceedings, namely the TIRC [Illinois Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission Act] proceedings, which all parties agree\u2014and the Illinois Appellate Court has confirmed\u2014are civil in nature,” the federal judge wrote.<\/p>\n

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“Gibson’s criminal proceedings had long since concluded and he and his attorneys were pursuing post-conviction proceedings, namely the TIRC [Illinois Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission Act] proceedings, which all parties agree\u2014and the Illinois Appellate Court has confirmed\u2014are civil in nature,” the federal judge wrote.<\/p>\n

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“Gibson’s criminal proceedings had long since concluded and he and his attorneys were pursuing post-conviction proceedings, namely the TIRC [Illinois Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission Act] proceedings, which all parties agree\u2014and the Illinois Appellate Court has confirmed\u2014are civil in nature,” the federal judge wrote. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “Gibson’s criminal proceedings had long since concluded and he and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":163927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163938,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163926\/revisions\/163938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}