A lawyer’s racism doesn’t have to spill over into his representation of a client to create a conflict of interest that demands a new trial, Massachusetts’ intermediate appeals court said Monday.
The decision is the second to go one step further than the state’s highest court’s 2023 ruling that addressed the racial animus expressed by one Massachusetts defense attorney’s “unabashed anti-Muslim rants [that] were matched only by his equal scorn for and racism against Black persons.”
The Supreme Judicial Court in that case became the first in the nation to rule that a lawyer’s racism directed at a group his ...
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