[cva66snipe]

Some lawyers have discovered a new method of getting clients most likely to get 20-life sentences off in less than ten. It's done by leaving gaps in their own defense of their client so later an appeal can be filed that the convict didn't have proper counsel.

Why would a lawyer delay even seven years? Several reasons. Witness die or move and can't be located to testify, evidence gets missing, public looses interest and most don't recall the crime, etc. Ineffective Counsel is the new Get Out Of Jail Free Card. The man should have been tried more than six years ago. He'll be a free man likely in less than a year and no conviction.

[nickcarraway]

Some lawyers have discovered a new method of getting clients most likely to get 20-life sentences off in less than ten. It's done by leaving gaps in their own defense of their client so later an appeal can be filed that the convict didn't have proper counsel.

Why would an attorney want to do that? They are besmirching their own name in a major way.

[RKBA Democrat]

It takes two to tango and the prosecutor apparently hasn’t bothered to press the issue either, thus building a case for habeas corpus or other appeal.

So give the guy a trial. If he’s convicted, away he goes. At this rate he’ll have served about a third of the average time served by a convicted murderer in NY anyway.

http://www.doccs.ny.gov/Research/Reports/2013/Statistical_Overview_2011_Discharges.pdf