A novel approach to a standard tactic failed to win a new trial for a Powder Springs, Ga. chiropractor convicted of killing his wife in the sensational "toolbox" murder case was shot down. To show his trial lawyer had been ineffective, Jack Ray Wallace tracked his counsel's nighttime bar tabs incurred during the 1992 trial. Wallace alleged that his ex-attorney, the late Peter Zack Geer, was drinking when he should've been working, and that he did that drinking on Wallace's dime.
July 03, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
A novel approach to a standard tactic failed to win a new trial for aPowder Springs chiropractor convicted of killing his wife in the sensational”toolbox” murder case.
To show his trial lawyer had been ineffective, a claim normally requiringflyspecking the trial transcript, Jack Ray Wallace tracked his counsel’snighttime bar tabs incurred during the 1992 trial.
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