(Providence, RI)--A judge has thrown out a conviction for a 2015 murder case in Providence.Miguel Tebalan Rivera received a sixty-year sentence for the stabbing of Julio Francisco Perez.The Providence Journal reports a state Superior Court judge last week found that Rivera's attorney violated his rights by discouraging him from testifying during his trial.Although he didn't take the stand, he said at sentencing that the stabbing was self-defense.The judge also said that police improperly interviewed Rivera after he asked for a lawyer.
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