Last week, the Connecticut House of Representatives voted 86-63 to repeal its state’s death penalty law. The state Senate passed the bill earlier in the week. Governor Dannel Malloy has promised to sign the bill making Connecticut the 17th state, and the 5thin the past 5 years, to repeal capital punishment. The bill is prospective […]
Archives for April 2012
SCOTUS Bars Prosecution in Commonwealth v. George
In the recent case of Commonwealth v. George, the defendant pleaded guilty to two cocaine deliveries that were made in 2007, he was sentenced and served his time. He was later charged by grand-jury presentment with two counts of corrupt organizations and one count of conspiracy to deliver cocaine, stemming from his narcotics-trafficking activity prior […]