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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

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Public defender’s public racism

BOSTON — A criminal defendant who pleaded guilty to three firearms charges will be given a new trial, ruled the Massachusetts Court of Appeals, because his public defender “made and shared ‘numerous racist and bigoted public postings’ expressing his hatred of and scorn for persons of the Muslim faith, Black persons, undocumented immigrants, and transgender persons” the same month he started representing the defendant, who is Black.

Read the ruling here.

Categories / Appeals, Briefs, Civil Rights, Criminal

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