Criminal Defense Connecticut

0.  Case against Julie Amero needs to be deleted (USA Today)
Occasionally I like to go back to subjects of previous columns and see what's changed, usually months after they've run. But this week there's enough new information about something I wrote about only a couple of weeks ago that I feel the need to talk about it.

1.  Gun play ends in death (The Barre Montpelier Times Argus)
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION -- The night before he shuffled into court in shackles to face a murder charge, Thomas M. Day had downed two mixed drinks and was working on his third when he held a gun in his hand and asked one of his closest friends a question. ... - By ALAN J. KEAYS Herald Staff

2.  Archived articles from Tuesday, March 13, 2007 (Star-Gazette)
Man busted in shooting Victim was shot in face, treated at Elmira hospital and released. 22 Comments An Elmira man was arrested Monday after a shooting incident that sent another resident to the hospital.

3.  Regional News Briefs (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Wisconsin 'I'm innocent,' Avery proclaims Chilton - Steven Avery declared his...

4.  POLICE: Drug dealer sentenced to six years in prison (Ridgefield Press)
A 21-year-old Lewisboro man who had been arrested in Ridgefield and New York on drug charges last year has been sentenced to six years in prison. Christopher Bua had maintained a High Ridge apartment where police in January 2006 found four pounds of marijuana, an ounce of cocaine, and $700.

5.  Lawyers spar in killing, dismemberment case (Asbury Park Press)
On Thursday morning, on the third day of the murder trial of Melanie McGuire, the state called to the witness stand Dr. Wendy Gunther, the Virginia Beach forensics pathologist who examined a small suitcase found on the beach on May 5, 2004, that contained legs of a white male severed at the knees.

6.  Friday, March 9 (CNN.com)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush Friday named seven people to the commission he established to review of health care for recovering Iraq and Afghan war veterans, focusing primarily at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

7.  Experts rebuke Amero ruling (Norwich Bulletin)
The president of a Florida computer protection software company, skeptical of the conviction of a Norwich substitute teacher in a computer porn case, says computer experts are joining to aid in her defense.

8.  Former Member of U.S. Navy Arrested in Arizona on Terrorism and Espionage Charges (U.S. Newswire via Yahoo! News)
Hassan Abujihaad, formerly known as Paul R. Hall, 31, of 15449 N. 25th Avenue, Apt. #2025, Phoenix, was arrested today in Phoenix on a federal criminal complaint from the District of Connecticut, U.S. Attorney Kevin J. O'Connor for the District of Connecticut announced today. The complaint alleges that, in 2001, Abujihaad provided material support or resources, knowing or intending that they ...

9.  Sarbanes-Oxley Charges in Conn. Case Worry Corporate Defense Lawyers (Insurance Journal)
The arrest of a prominent attorney on charges of destroying evidence in a Connecticut child pornography investigation is raising alarm bells that a law targeting corporate accounting schemes could be