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Defense attorney Kevin Smith and defendant Qinxuan Pan Monday.
Tow truck driver Nicholas Johnson testifies.
A tow truck driver, a police sergeant, a scrapyard security guard, and an eyewitness to an East Rock murder all gathered in a fifth-floor courtroom to recount what they saw and heard in the immediate aftermath of one of New Haven’s most notorious recent homicides.
The family of police-paralyzed Randy Cox and the Elicker administration have committed to try settling a civil lawsuit against the city outside of court.
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Dec 5, 2022 10:40 am
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Carmon's attorney David Keenan: "An egregious wrong has been committed."
Adam Carmon’s lawyers have moved to get their client out of prison after three decades now that a state judge has vacated his conviction for a notorious murder.
At a July 2021 virtual court hearing in Newton's murder case. Clockwise from top left: Defense attn’y Christopher Duby, Judge Harmon, state prosecutor Stacey Miranda, Rashod Newton.
A 29-year-old New Havener named Rashod Newton has pleaded guilty to murdering his girlfriend Alessia Mesquita, and now faces up to 38 years in prison.
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Dec 1, 2022 2:55 pm
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Alder board prez Walker-Myers, Elicker: Let's talk about it.
Four-year terms for local elected officials are back on the table, according to a new memo describing the mayor’s and the Board of Alders president’s priorities for debate in a once-in-a-decade charter revision process.
Vietnam vet Conley Monk, Jr. (right) with U.S. Sen. Blumenthal.
Conley Monk, Jr. finally received his federal veteran benefits in 2015 after more than four decades of denied claims and a successful court battle that led to nationwide discharge appeal reform.
The Vietnam War vet and former Marine joined a team of legal advocates and a sitting U.S. senator to announce a new lawsuit against the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) alleging racial bias in the process by which benefit claims like his are reviewed and approved.
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Nov 29, 2022 5:25 pm
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Crump (center): Cox's life expectancy "severely compromised" if he doesn't get the right care.
Richard “Randy” Cox heralded the arrests of the five New Haven police officers who left him permanently paralyzed a step towards justice — while the 36-year-old New Havener’s family and legal team slammed state prosecutors for not bringing heavier charges against those same cops.
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Nov 29, 2022 1:58 pm
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COMPASS crew members Yichu Xu and Nanette Campbell help out Ollie Cooper at crisis team's launch on Nov. 1.
New Haven’s new COMPASS team of social workers and “peer recovery specialists” has responded to 60 calls so far in its nascent effort to provide non-police help for people in crisis — and the city should know by this spring just how successful this intervention initiative has been.
The city police department will be hosting its latest annual “Guns to Gardens” buyback this Saturday at the police academy building on Sherman Parkway.
Ofc. Diaz, Sgt. Segui, and Ofc. Pressley lifting Cox into wheelchair.
Five city cops have been arrested on two misdemeanor charges apiece for their roles in the June 19 incident that left 36-year-old New Havener Richard “Randy” Cox injured and paralyzed while in police custody.
Officers dragging Richard Cox into a holding cell on June 19.
Four of the five city cops sued for allegedly violating Richard “Randy” Cox’s constitutional rights claim in new court filings that their actions were reasonable and covered by “qualified immunity,” arguing that the paralyzing injuries suffered by the 36-year-old New Havener while in police custody stemmed in large part from his own “negligence and carelessness.”
The Elicker Administration has taken a similar tack, invoking in a separate new court filing “governmental immunity” in the case and pointing to the now-paralyzed New Havener’s “contributory negligence.”
It was Groundhog Day Monday for U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal as he fielded a reporter’s question: Another mass shooting. Another request for a policy response.
View St. tenant John Barbiero: Woke up one day with new landlord, workers on the roof, and eviction notice on the door.
A local investor-landlord has moved to evict everyone who lives in a Cedar Hill three-family house — including a 76-year-old Air Force veteran — less than a month after buying the property as part of a $1 million package deal.
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Nov 16, 2022 5:34 pm
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James Pagan, also known as Epic the Poet, performs at Wednesday's protest.
During Darcus Henry’s 13 and a half years in prison, he would spend every possible minute at the law library with a group of nearly 15 other men who all maintained their innocence. Together, they’d meet for the permitted hour every Tuesday and Thursday to read about court precedents, research their own cases, and exchange stories of pressured witnesses and suppressed evidence.
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Nov 11, 2022 12:58 pm
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Judge Blue: "If anything, the new evidence, if submitted to a jury, would seal Greer’s doom."
Describing a yeshiva that turned into a “den of iniquity,” a state judge resoundingly rejected incarcerated sex offender Rabbi Daniel Greer’s bid for a new trial on the grounds that the convicted predator’s claims of “new evidence” only underscore his guilt.
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Nov 7, 2022 12:43 pm
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Attorney Pattis and defendant Pan in court in September.
The state has deemed Qinxuan Pan “competent” to stand trial for allegedly murdering Yale graduate student Kevin Jiang — meaning that the former MIT artificial intelligence researcher’s ongoing criminal case will continue.
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Nov 4, 2022 4:01 pm
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Attorney Ben Crump (center) leads Friday's vigil.
Randy Cox’s family and legal team stepped up the pressure on the Elicker Administration to “act now” and do their part to help the paralyzed 36-year-old New Havener — a month after his attorneys filed a $100 million civil lawsuit against the city, and as the highest payout the city’s insurance companies could cover appears to be $30 million.
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Nov 3, 2022 10:06 am
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Mieles's classmates, including Ibrahim Cheek (center), mourn the loss of one of their own Thursday.
The late city firefighter Thomas Mieles.
City firefighters mourned yet another death of one of their own as they gathered at the Lombard Street station to remember Thomas Mieles, a 27-year-old Fair Havener who died Wednesday night in a five-vehicle car crash on I‑91.
