A warden convicted of eight counts of sexual abuse during his tenure at the Federal Correctional Institute in Dublin is seeking a new trial.
Ray Garcia's new Fresno-based attorney, Kevin Little, filed a motion last week to U.S. District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, asking that his client get retried, alleging there was juror misconduct during deliberations and Garcia's first attorney was "impaired" by his financial interests.
"This is pretty standard but it sounds like a Hail Mary," said Jeffrey Bornstein, an attorney who represents some of the women that Garcia abused, referring to a term known as a last-ditch effort. Four days after he was found guilty, Garcia hired a new lawyer. Attorneys have told KTVU that it would be a stretch to declare a mistrial because a woman talked about what it is like to be a female in jury deliberations.
Little alleged that Reilly never met with Garcia to prepare him to testify on his own behalf, "instead sending him a hastily composed e-mail in th wee hours of the morning the same day the defendant was scheduled to testify." Little noted that while the judge was "more than pleasant with jurors and prosecution witnesses," she was not that pleasant with the defense.
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