Court-appointed attorney Richard Doyle, who has since died, was found to have a conflict of interest when he represented Anthony Dew, a Black Muslim; Doyle had a history of posting racist and anti-Muslim vitriol on social media.
"This situation was so strange. We could not find a similar case and we could not fit this extreme fact pattern into existing law," he said.
The Suffolk district attorney's office now must decide whether to try the case, dismiss the charges, or negotiate another plea deal. On one of the first occasions Dew met his defense attorney, he was wearing a prayer cap known as a kufi. Doyle demanded he remove the cap and said,"Don't come in this room like that ever," according to the court. At another meeting, the attorney left the room without speaking to Dew upon seeing that he was again wearing a kufi.
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