Houston-based prosecutors have claimed that white-collar criminal and civil defense attorney Michael Wynne committed misconduct by failing to supervise an assistant who created confusion with e-filing snafus, which, through a series of unfortunate events, ended as a nightmare for all involved.

It’s a pretty complicated comedy of errors, but here’s a spoiler: The e-filing mistakes might have been what caused a judge inadvertently to sign a proposed findings and recommendations to release a convicted murderer on bond pending the finalization of his requested post-conviction habeas relief.

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