ALBANY – An upstate court has decided that a judge’s “paternalistic” concerns were misplaced when he appointed an attorney to represent a state prison inmate who wanted to defend himself against charges of injuring corrections officers during a visiting-room altercation.
Inmate Injah Tafari displayed sufficient competency to act as his own counsel, the Appellate Division, Third Department, panel ruled unanimously in ordering a new trial for the inmate on charges of assault and criminal mischief for a 2005 incident at Eastern Correctional Facility in Ulster County.
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