Court reverses man's shooting conviction in Troy for ineffective defense
Court reverses man's shooting conviction in Troy for ineffective defense FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Shateek Lanier, who was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison in the shooting of former Troy Highs School basketball player Jerell Reid, will receive a new trial after an appeals court ruled Thursday that he received an ineffective counsel at trial from one of the region's top defense lawyers, Cheryl Coleman. In this photograph, Reid, left, gets a shot by Henniger High's #15 Tommie Spinner during Saturday's game at the Times Union Center in Albany Dec. 31, 2011. (John Carl D'Annibale / Times Uni...