Eric Perry, foreground, wrongfully incarcerated for 10 months, is suing his public defender for not arranging an in-person identification by the witness. On the eve of trial, when the witness saw Perry in person, she told authorities he wasn’t the culprit. Pictured with Perry is his new attorney, Roger Crossland.
A Superior Court judge has allowed a legal malpractice case against the Public Defender Services Commission to proceed, by supporting a rare legislative joint resolution-one that allowed a man to institute a suit against the state for being wrongly incarcerated.
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