Sanjines v. Ortwein and Associates, PC

OPINION

BIRCH, J.

Jorge Ariel Sanjines, M.D., the plaintiff, is currently in the custody of the Department of Correction. 1 On February 12, 1996, the plaintiff filed a pro se complaint alleging legal malpractice against Ortwein & Associates, William Ortwein, J. Cris Helton, and John Morgan, 2 the attorneys who had previously represented him in a criminal proceeding. The essential allegation of this civil action was that the attorneys had been ill-prepared and had failed to represent the plaintiff adequately. These “shortcomings,” he alleged, forced him to enter guilty pleas to first-degree…