A federal appeals court has reversed the conviction of a New Jersey inmate serving a life sentence for murder because he wasn’t allowed to represent himself at his 1988 trial.
In a rare grant of habeas corpus, the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found Anthony Alongi’s Sixth Amendment right to counsel was violated when the trial judge barred him from firing his lawyer.
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