People v. Shinkle

OPINION OF THE COURT

Jones, J.

Defendant’s conviction must be vacated where the executive director of the Legal Aid Society who represented him in the beginning stages of the criminal action later joined the District Attorney’s office and remained there during the course of prosecution of the action, notwithstanding that means were designed and scrupulously pursued to insulate him from defendant’s case.

On March 8, 1977, the day after the events out of which the charges in this case arose, Sol Lesser, Esq., of the Legal Aid Society of Sullivan County, Inc., was assigned to represent defendant.…