Athy murder appeal judges may step aside after realising they prosecuted and defended appellant Seamus Morgan
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Two judges who heard an appeal against an Athy man s murder conviction may have to step away from the case after they discovered that one of them prosecuted the killer while the other defended him on a previous murder charge.
Seamus Morgan (53) last week appealed to the three-judge Court of Appeal against his conviction for murdering dissident republican Larry Bomber Keane. Morgan was previously found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter for the killing of 29-year-old James Hand outside a Dublin pub in 2002.
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