An appeals court has granted class certification to a group of plaintiffs from five New York counties who claim the state has systematically deprived poor criminal defendants of adequate legal representation.
Reversing an order of Supreme Court Justice Eugene P. Devine in Albany, a unanimous panel of the Appellate Division, Third Department, held that the plaintiffs’ common legal and factual questions predominated over issues affecting individual class members.
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