A panel of Massachusetts Appeals Court judges was perplexed Monday by how broad the remedy should be for defendants from marginalized communities who were represented by a lawyer who made racist and Islamophobic Facebook posts.
The case is one of several addressing the bombshell discovery that Richard Doyle, a criminal defense attorney who represented more than 6,000 clients during his career, made over 20 racist social media posts from 2014 to 2017. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ordered a new trial in 2023 for another of Doyle’s clients, the first ruling of its kind to find that a lawyer’s racism ...
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