ALBANY – A man serving 25 years to life for killing his wife has been given a new trial after an appeals court unanimously concluded he was deprived of effective assistance of counsel.
Chief among the errors cited by the Appellate Division, Third Department, panel was the counsel’s failure to challenge statements by the prosecution that testing had conclusively linked the blood stains found on the sweatshirt that defendant Ganesh Ramsaran wore on the morning his wife disappeared with her DNA.
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