Twice in the last few weeks, I’ve been involved in discussions with other criminal defense attorneys on the type of notice a defendant must have of the existence of a protective order. So today I tried to figure out the answer, and I’m ge…
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The Connecticut Supreme Court released a decision yesterday, Gomes, that overturned an assault conviction due to a jury charge. The defense asked for a jury instruction on the adequacy of the police investigation. The police responded to a fight at a…
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Today, the Connecticut Supreme Court overturned the murder conviction of Donald Raynor because the trial judge denied the defendant’s motion for a hearing pursuant to State v. Porter, 241 Conn. 57 (1997). Porter follows Daubert v. Merrell Dow P…
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So this is an article I wrote for the Connecticut Lawyer, the magazine for Connecticut’s Bar Association. The article is about Veteran Treatment Courts (VTCs). VTCs are diversionary courts, much like drug treatment courts, but to use a VTC an indiv…
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