A Tolland Superior Court judge found a Bridgeport defense lawyer provided ineffective counsel to a client facing robbery, assault, larceny and other charges. The judge then ordered a new trial and vacated the 14-year prison sentence of Lacelles Clue, convicted of a violent home burglary.

In a 10-page ruling after the habeas corpus proceeding, Judge John Newson wrote that attorney Eugene Zingaro of Zingaro & Cretella should have called two alibi witnesses to the stand during Clue’s 2011 trial.