A Morgan County judge last month ordered the state to respond to a former death row inmate who says his court-appointed attorney was affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan.
Judge Charles Elliott gave the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office’s until Aug. 25 to respond to an appeal from Robin “Rocky” Myers whose team says they have found evidence that John Mays, who represented Myers at his capital murder trial in 1994, spoke at numerous white supremacist rallies and was affiliated with the Klan Imperial Wizard Robert Shelton.
“This wasn’t just a conflict of interest; it was a total subversion of justice. The State cannot look the other way,” said JaTaune Bosby Gilchrist, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Alabama, in a statement…