Gammage v. Graham

Johnson, Judge.

On December 12, 1991, attorney Miles Gammage was appointed to defend eighteen-year-old Mark Eric Graham against charges of child molestation and attempted statutory rape of a ten-year-old girl. Graham had been confined since his arrest on July 17, 1991, and had already given and signed an incriminating statement at the time of Gammage’s appointment. On Graham’s behalf, Gammage waived formal arraignment on December 18, 1991. He interviewed the investigator who took Graham’s statement and shortly thereafter wrote a letter to Graham in which he suggested that entering a guilty…