An attorney’s failure to secure cellphone records has led a federal judge to order a new trial for a career criminal convicted of attempted murder.

Blair Garner is currently serving 25 years behind bars for the shooting of Karl Keith during a drug deal in North Amityville in 2002, but a federal judge said the “inexcusable and devastating” failure of defense counsel to get the phone records justified granting Garner’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus.