A federal appeals court decided yesterday that a defendant now serving 25 years in state prison on two rape counts was ill-served by an attorney who failed to object to the defendant being tried in one county for sexual attacks that allegedly occurred in two separate counties.
Citing a violation of defendant Jason Cornell’s right to effective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit granted a writ of habeas corpus as it pertained to one of the two 12 1/2-year terms he is serving consecutively.
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