A state judge in Albany has ordered an investigation into an ex parte meeting between a court clerk and a defense attorney that might serve as the basis for a new trial for an upstate man recently sentenced to 25 years in prison for killing his best friend.
Albany County Supreme Court Justice Roger McDonough granted a motion for evidentiary proceedings to determine what was said during a clandestine, one-on-one meeting between a law clerk and local counsel for Gregory Thayer prior to his conviction that was not divulged to the rest of Thayer’s defense team until after the fact.
