Convicted killer of Linda Stein, her former assistant Natavia Lowery, has been hoping for a new lawyer... and it looks like dreams do come true. After a number of outbursts and a threat to her old legal team, the Daily News reports that the judge let her have new representation. Lowery and her family were back in the courtroom today, where Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Richard Carruthers reprimanded them for disturbing two court proceedings and creating a "potentially dangerous situation."
The threats the family made were directed at her lawyers from the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, but no details about them were made public. Lowery's newly appointed lawyer is Paul Brenner, who she's been lobbying for since before the trial ended. Judge Carruthers has called him unprepared, and in the past the Assistant DA has noted that he hadn't read the case file and even spelled Lowery's name incorrectly.
Brenner says he will now work at getting the conviction overturned; Lowery's sentencing is May 3rd.
