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Appeals court weighs new-trial and plea-withdrawal claims after attorney-sanctions finding in Collins v. Badgett
Summary
Sarah Halton argued that her client, Mr. Badgett, is entitled to withdrawal of his guilty plea or a new trial because of trial counsel's alleged misconduct and subsequent disciplinary action disclosed after the plea.
Sarah Halton, arguing for Mr. Badgett in Collins v. Badgett (No. 24239), told the Appeals Court that recent disciplinary findings and later-disclosed social-media postings provided newly discovered grounds to withdraw a guilty plea or grant a new trial. Halton said the client's appointed counsel had been censured by the Committee for Public Counsel Services and that the client had signed a form informing him of a complaint; she argued the line of Supreme Judicial Court authority in…
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