The case against Dontia Patterson, who spent 11 years in jail for murder, was “weak,” “an abundance” of critical exculpatory evidence was withheld from his defense team, and the defendant “in all likelihood” was innocent, an attorney told the court that weighed Patterson’s fate Wednesday.

In a motion filed the day before, that same attorney said Patterson’s conviction was “an egregious example of police and prosecutorial misconduct.”