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ABAJ: "epresenting Defendant & Gov?t Witnesses Sparks Mistrial, Finger-Pointing"

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

On ABA Journal.com: Representing Defendant & Gov’t Witnesses Sparks Mistrial, Finger-Pointing by Martha Neil, involving a NYS PD's office. Representing, at various times, both the defendant in an attempted murder case and witnesses that the prosecution intends to call at trial put a New York prosecutor and public defender's office in the hot seat. Judge Andrew Ceresia declared a mistrial yesterday in the week-old Troy trial after assistant public defender Gregory Cholakis told him that he and his office apparently represented prosecution witnesses in the case of his current client, Ariel Myers, in prior criminal matters, reports the Times Union. The judge granted Myers a new trial and will appoint him a new attorney unaffiliated with the Rennselaer County Public Defender's Office, reports the Troy Record...continue to full post

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on May 20, 2010 (boomark / email).