Jurisprudence

Mike Tyson should be granted a new trial because of shoddy work by his attorney, according to a lawyer who coordinated media coverage of the boxer’s rape trial. Mark Shaw, a Nashville lawyer, is writing a book with Charley Steiner of ESPN that says Vincent J. Fuller, Tyson’s attorney in the trial, was unfamiliar with the court process and lacked recent experience in sex-crime cases.

Published excerpts from the book, to be released in the fall, said Fuller was unfamiliar with Indiana law and handled the case more like a first-year law student than an experienced attorney.

Fuller could not be reached for comment.

Tyson is serving a six-year sentence in the Indiana Youth Center at Plainfield for raping a contestant in the Miss Black America pageant a year ago. His conviction is being appealed.