March 12, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com
The guilty verdict of a Brighton-area man for raping a teenage girl at a golf course has been vacated by a local judge.
In court Thursday morning, Livingston County Judge Michael Hatty read a ten-page opinion from the bench concerning the verdict against 22-year-old Zachary Lally of Green Oak Township. Lallyâs attorneys had sought a new trial based on allegations that Assistant Prosecutor Pamela Maas solicited perjured testimony from a detective in the case. Hatty referenced several examples of what he termed âprosecutorial misconductâ that resulted in Lally âbeing denied a fair and impartial trial.â He then concluded that a new trial was warranted.