The Appellate Division has ordered a new trial in the case of a criminal defendant who was a former client of the trial judge who convicted him of drug offenses.
Edward Holland’s case was sent back to the criminal presiding judge of the Cumberland-Gloucester-Salem vicinage for vacation of his conviction on drug charges after he claimed in a post-conviction relief application that he had been a client of Superior Court Judge James Swift before the judge presided at his criminal trial. The Appellate Division found the situation posed a potential for an appearance of impropriety after Holland appealed the decision of another Superior Court judge, Robert Malestein, who found Swift’s prior representation of Holland did not warrant post-conviction relief.
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