UPDATE:: Federal judge re-affirms sentence in Amish hair-cutting caseAmish bishop Sam Mullet is asking the Cleveland federal judge who sent him to prison to overturn his convictions for orchestrating a series of beard and hair-cutting attacks on his enemies.
The leader of a breakaway Amish group in Ohio convicted in hair- and beard-cutting attacks has lost an attempt to appeal his sentence in federal court.
An attorney for 72-year-old Samuel Mullet Sr. argues that Mullet’s previous lawyer made mistakes.
U.S. District Judge Dan Polster disagreed Wednesday, concluding that those alleged errors weren’t prejudicial and that Mullet wasn’t denied a fair trial.
Mullet argues in a motion filed Friday that his former attorney, Assistant Federal Public Defender Ed Bryan, made a series of errors while representing him at his 2012 trial, and through two appeals. Had Bryan not committed the errors, Mullet's trial may have ended differently, the motion says.
Bryan, who has worked as a federal defense attorney since 1997, admitted to these errors in an affidavit included in the motion.
Sam Mullet, Amish bishop who orchestrated beard-cutting attacks, asks judge to overturn his convictions | cleveland.com
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