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Ex-attorney Stephen Snyder appeals felony extortion conviction

Claims Parkinson’s and dementia left him unfit for self-representation

Jury found Snyder guilty of attempted extortion of UMMS in 2023

Appeal argues trial court should have revoked his pro se status

Stephen Snyder, the prominent former medical malpractice lawyer, says he was not competent to represent himself at his criminal trial last fall because of a combined diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease and dementia.

The former attorney, who was convicted of felony attempted extortion of the University of Maryland Medical System , argued in his recently-filed opening appeal brief that a judge should have revoked his ability to represent himself and appointed an attorney for him.

He received a “fundamentally

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