PATRICK THOMPSON WINS SMALL CLAIMS CASE AGAINST FORMER ATTORNEY

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In a small claims case local black activist Patrick
Thompson filed pro se against his former attorney, Harvey
Welch, a judge decided that legal malpractice had
been committed and ruled in Thompson’s favor.
Thompson says he is donating the $3,000 in attorney
fees that Welch must pay back, to Champaign Urbana
Citizens for Peace and Justices who helped raise funds
for his legal defense.
In a 2006 trial, the second of three trials, Welch had
called only one witness and Thompson was found guilty
on charges of home invasion and sexual abuse. The conviction
was overturned due to “ineffective assistance of
counsel” and in a trial that took place in May 2008,
Thompson was found not guilty of the charges.
As the judge in the small claims suit said, this case
was “a rather unusual situation.”

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