Alongi Uncorked — Evidence in criminal cases, unlike vintage wine, rarely improves with age. So Ocean County Prosecutor Marlene Lynch Ford announced Friday that her office won’t retry Anthony Alongi, the beneficiary of a rare grant of habeas corpus.
Alongi was convicted in 1988 and sentenced to a life term for being the accomplice of the killer of a Florida couple during a drug deal gone bad. But the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in February that the trial judge erred when he denied Alongi’s request to serve as his own attorney, rather than be saddled with a lawyer he didn’t like: Jack Russell of Jersey City, now deceased. The court ruled that the right to counsel includes the right to represent oneself.
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