Paul Solotaroff
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 26 Aug
Paul Solotaroff’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There, over the tuna fish they only made for him, he'd spend the first ten minutes cracking punchlines in Yiddish and ribbing me for marrying a blonde shiksa.
And then he'd sit and explain how he'd used a DA's trick to win Anthony a third and final trial.
In criminal law, there's something called the Molyneux Rule.
It allows the prosecution to bring up prior bad acts to show that a defendant has a criminal M.O.
What Baker did was flip that rule on its head.
He went to New York's Court of Appeals and declared he wanted to raise the history of someone who wasn't on trial.
That someone, of course, being Howard Gombert.
This was, to put it mildly, a moonshot plea.
It had never succeeded in post-conviction hearings.
Not in New York, at least.
Even Baker's partner, Mark Agnifola, was a skeptic.
In 2016, Baker argued his brief before the seven panel judge in Albany.
All persons having any business... Baker had a half hour to persuade them that the judge at DePippo's retrial denied him due process by blocking his Gombert proof.
The Putnam DA thought so little of Baker's gambit that he'd send a junior assistant to oppose him.
I think the... But as the assistant DA argued against allowing the Gombert evidence to be heard at trial, a judge on the panel cut in.
After 45 minutes, the panel adjourned, saying they'd issue their ruling in writing.
Anthony waited and waited to see if he'd get the chance to argue his case again in front of a jury.
I mean, it's happened, but I mean, less than between 50, 75 times, maybe.
Maybe in the United States, you know, that somebody's gotten a third chance.
For months, he woke up every day burning to know if the court's ruling had been posted.
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