The highest court in Massachusetts noted that attorney Richard Doyle had a history of posting racist and anti-Muslim vitriol on social media and had a conflict of interest as a result.
The judge's gavel and scales as a symbol of the judiciary and justice.The highest court in Massachusetts has vacated sex trafficking convictions against a Black Muslim man whose court-appointed attorney had a history of posting racist and anti-Muslim vitriol on social media.
“I'm happy, of course. Our position was that he was denied his constitutional rights, and this decision confirms that our position was correct,” Gaffney said.“This situation was so strange. We could not find a similar case and we could not fit this extreme fact pattern into existing law," he said.The Suffolk district attorney's office now must decide whether to try the case, dismiss the charges, or negotiate another plea deal.
Dew was indicted in March 2015 on 19 charges, including five counts of trafficking a person for sexual servitude and one count of rape. Doyle urged Dew to accept a plea deal in the case, and in 2016, he pleaded guilty to all of the charges he faced, except for rape, which was dismissed as part of the deal. He was sentenced to up to 10 years in prison.Dew at the time had no idea that his attorney from at least 2014 through 2017 had made a series of racists posts on social media.
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