Ferri v. Ackerman

OPINION

Appellant, Francis Ferri was convicted in federal district court for violation of federal law1 and sentenced to thirty years imprisonment. Ten of those years were attributable *115to an Internal Revenue Code violation conviction. While appeal on that matter was pending, appellant instituted a “complaint in negligence” in state court against appellee, Daniel Ackerman, an attorney who had been appointed as appellant’s defense counsel for that criminal proceeding, pursuant to the Criminal Justice Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3006A (1978). Among the sixty-seven different instances of malpractice allegedly…