A man convicted on human trafficking and drug charges is fighting for a new trial after discovering the court-appointed lawyer who handled his case apparently made and circulated racist and offensive remarks on social media.
In 2016, Anthony Dew, a 39-year-old from Dorchester, was sentenced to up to 10 years in prison. The attorney who represented him, Richard Doyle, was appointed through the state's public defender agency, the Committee for Public Counsel Services . Doyle died last March.
Doyle, according to the attorney's affidavit, also allegedly described a client in another case as a"21-year-old punk" and wrote he might give that client "soap on a rope for a going away present." Gaffney, who was appointed by CPCS to handle Dew's motion for a new trial, said Dew contacted CPCS several times but was not aware of the investigation into Doyle's online posts until after Doyle died in 2021 at age 59.
"Attorney Doyle practiced law as a defense attorney in the Boston area for over twenty years, yet the defendant has not produced any evidence that Doyle ever let his personal prejudices affect his professionalism in court or his representation of any of his clients, much less his representation of the defendant himself," the Suffolk County district attorney's office wrote.
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