“My hat is off to them. They out-lawyered me,” a special prosecutor Joseph Michael told a local newspaper reporter covering his office’s decision not to retry a Maryland man who served 21 years for a crime he maintains he didn’t commit. “If I ever kill anybody, I want them to represent me.”
February 09, 2021 at 07:30 AM
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After lawyers at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project secured the release of David Faulkner, a lead prosecutor on the case paid them the ultimate prosecutor-to-defense-lawyer compliment.
“My hat is off to them. They out-lawyered me,” special prosecutor Joseph Michael told a local newspaper reporter covering his office’s decision not to retry Faulkner, a Maryland man who served 21 years for a crime he maintains he didn’t commit.
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(L to R) Frances Walters with the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project, Melvin Faulkner, Joyce Faulkner, David Faulkner, and John Chesley, Gibson Dunn (Photo: Joyce Faulkner)
