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A New York court will look into whether a secret meeting last year between the local attorney representing a man charged with murder and the law clerk for the judge trying his case amounted to an ethical violation and possibly infringed the man's constitutional right to a fair trial, attorneys told Law360 Friday.
KINGSTON, N.Y. — Gregory Thayer was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in state prison for the shooting death of Bruce Swierc, a man Thayer called his best friend, according to a press release from the Ulster County District Attorney’s Office. Thayer, 50, was convicted on May 10 of first-degree manslaughter and second-degree weapons possession following […]
KINGSTON, N.Y. — Ulster County Chief Assistant District Attorney Emmanuel Nneji urged a state Supreme Court justice to reject a bid by Gregory Thayer to have his manslaughter conviction tossed and move forward with sentencing, saying in part that Thayer’s defense team “cheated” when one of the attorneys met privately with Judge Bryan Rounds law […]