When a Fayette County judge suggested that hundreds of defendants sentenced by another judge who was having an affair with their attorney should be informed their cases may have been compromised, a public defender pushed back, warning that it could create a “monster” in which each individual case would have to be reviewed.
Most such defendants would want to invalidate pleas or ask for new trials, W. Allen Adams Jr., a staff attorney with the Griffin Circuit public defender’s office, told Griffin Circuit Chief Superior Court Judge Christopher C. Edwards during an April meeting in the judge’s chambers. “Each particular case has to be looked at on an absolute individual basis by an attorney who can say an appeal is worthwhile, a habeas is worthwhile … but it may not be,” Adams said.
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