Lacelles Clue, right, had his 14-year prison sentence for home invasion vacated by a Superior Court judge, who also ordered a new trial. Courtesy photo
A Tolland Superior Court judge found a Bridgeport defense lawyer provided ineffective counsel to a client facing robbery, assault, larceny and other charges. The judge then ordered a new trial and vacated the 14-year prison sentence of Lacelles Clue, convicted of a violent home burglary.
In a 10-page ruling after the habeas corpus proceeding, Judge John Newson wrote that attorney Eugene Zingaro of Zingaro & Cretella should have called two alibi witnesses to the stand during Clue’s 2011 trial.
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