A federal judge’s footnote on the hundreds of racist and sexist emails exchanged among judges and lawyers that rocked Pennsylvania’s criminal justice system may soon give new meaning to those messages—in state and federal appellate courts—attorneys say.
A recent decision from U.S. District Judge Gerald A. McHugh of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania granting a woman’s habeas corpus petition may spur defense attorneys to seize upon the email scandal—which earned the nickname “Porngate”—as an argument for further review of their clients’ convictions, criminal law practitioners told The Legal.
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