Robin “Rocky” Myers, a Black man whose death sentence was commuted last year, is asking for his murder conviction to be overturned, saying he was represented in trial by an attorney who had ties to the Klu Klux Klan.
“Rocky Myers was forced to rely on a court-appointed lawyer who had documented ties to one of the most violent white supremacist organizations in American history,” Kacey Keeton, lead counsel for Myers during his federal proceedings, said in a press release.
“The Constitution guarantees every person the right to effective and conflict-free representation. When the attorney tasked with defending a Black man accused of killing a white woman had a history of publicly aligning himself with the Ku Klux Klan, the integrity of that trial must be seriously questioned.”…