January 2023
January 2023 – The town signed a deal agreeing to keep further information about his alleged misconduct secret unless ordered to release it by another agency.
Spring 2021 – Imagine a government-run correctional system that housed its prisoners in a facility filled with a colorless, odorless and noxious gas that causes various life-threatening illnesses such as lung cancer. Imagine that after incarceration, inmates are given no notice that they are inhaling this noxious gas, until it is too late and cancer has set in. Imagine that the government knew the prison was a deathtrap when it was built.
Spring 2021 – In recent times no United States Supreme Court decision has been more widely denouncedamong scholars, jurists, politicians, and the public- than the Court's decision in Kelo v. New London.
Summer 2020 – In what may be the Court’s most eloquent and admired statement of First Amendment principles, Barnette found in favor of two Jehovah’s Witnesses school children who refused to salute the flag. To fully appreciate Barnette, it is important to first understand the social climate in which it was decided.
Summer 2020 – The process of “turning” witnesses to testify against a defendant in exchange for some benefit is commonplace in our criminal justice system. Yet, there is a dearth of legislative or judicial analysis into the corrupting effect of this breed of testimony. As most defense attorneys can attest, prosecutorial reliance on jailhouse informants is one of the most insidious and destructive of law enforcement practices.
April 2019 – These days, even the most ardent law enforcement loyalists find their allegiances shaken. From coast to coast, police officers are beating and killing ordinary citizens in complete disregard to the rule of law and the promise they made to uphold it.
March 2019 – n the course of over 60 years of practice as a San Francisco based lawyer, Melvin M. Belli became the most famous lawyer in America involved in its most famous cases.ts.
January 2019 – The idea of possessing a lie detection machine capable of determining false testimony has fascinated scientists, criminolo - gists and lawyers for centuries.
December 2018 – The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized
August 2018 – A probate judge has ruled that a former state legislator “unjustly enriched” himself at the expense of his family’s Enfield tobacco farm and that he owes his father’s estate more than $2 million.
July 2018 – In the last few years, college age men wrongfully accused of sexual misconduct have brought over 200 lawsuits to clear their names. These suits have shown that accused parties are being denied their right to due process by school panels afraid to lose Title IX funding.
June 2018 – Most trial lawyers regard probate courts as humdrum backwaters. They assume serious litigation and gripping courtroom drama are the province of civil state and federal trial courts.
July 2017 – For over three decades until the time of his death in 1988, Hartford native Edward Bennett Williams was the most famous lawyer in America.
June 2017 – Whether it’s the government intercepting a terrorist for your protection, or google tracking your searches, technology and the national security state it supports is at war with your privacy- and the civil liberties that protect it.
February 2017 – There are many novelists who have written with great insight and wit about lawyers, an endlessly rich subject matter for any writer. Charles Dickens was one of the best.
January 2017 – For over three decades until the time of his death in 1988, Hartford native Edward Bennett Williams was the most famous lawyer in America.
December 2016 – The idea of possessing a lie detection machine capable of determining false testimony has fascinated scientists, criminolo - gists and lawyers for centuries.
December 2016 – The idea of possessing a lie detection machine capable of determining false testimony has fascinated scientists, criminolo - gists and lawyers for centuries.
July 2016 – For the past several decades nearly all criminal prosecutions of consequence in Connecticut have been brought by federal prosecutors who have successfully pursued a succession of spectacular cases involving municipalities, high level politicians (including a sitting governor), police departments, and other significant cases.
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