FAIRMONT — The attorney defending the most recent Pagan’s murder trial accused the Marion County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney of bad faith against her client in a motion to dismiss she filed on Friday.

“Knowing no evidence existed to tie Ryan Lane to first degree murder, the State began its quest in bad faith to ‘poison the well; with crimes committed by ‘the Pagans’ in an attempt to paint Ryan Lane as a despicable individual who acted in conformity with ‘Pagans’ in general and no one in particular,” Elgine McArdle, Lane’s attorney, wrote in the filing. “In reality, Ryan Lane is a thirty-seven year old man who has never been arrested.”

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