FAILED TO DISCLOSE CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Trial counsel Robert Donatoni failed to disclose conflict of interest. Trial counsel represented the Pennsylvania state police, who are employed by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania who were prosecuting my son the defendant. This information was only obtained after the trial when we read an article in the local newspaper stating just this.

Trial counsel also failed to disclose the 10,000 dollar referral fee payed to our injury attorney handling my fathers death when tragically killed by a hit and run driver.

Had we been made aware of this we never would have agreed to retrain him. that's a lot of money that we didn't have to throw away on ineffective assistance of counsel for merely being referred to him.

Trial counsel bragged about getting clients off on worse than what my son was accused of ,and he pointed to the wall of articles stating he headed the criminal defense team, bragging about his reputation. He never mentioned the referral fee and again we only found this out through appellate counsel after trial and sentencing were over. this is about as unethical as it gets.
Again we never would have threw away 10,000 on an ineffective assistance for nothing more being referred to us by an attorney who was supposed to be helping us collect on insurance policies.

This was a serious conflict of interest and extremely unethical. How low can you go. Neither deserve to be practicing law.

This was my son and fathers lives we were dealing with.