Connecticut Good Will Law
United States of America v. Troy Harris
<h2><br> New Haven, Connecticut burglary of a gun store criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant.<br> </h2><br> Man Sentenced to 5 Years in Federal Prison for Newington Gun Store Burglary<br> <P><br> Shortly after midnight on September 5, 2021, Troy Harris, age 50,, who had absconded from state parole, approached a woman in the parking lot of a supermarket in Bristol. Pointing what appea... More...
$0 (10-22-2024 - CT)Tamara Dorfman v. Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Company </center
<h2><br> Hartford, Connecticut insurance law lawyers represented the Plaintiff.<br> </h2><br> <br> In 2014, the plaintiff sustained serious bodily injuries when her motor vehicle collided with a vehicle operated by Joscelyn M. Smith, who failed to stop his vehicle at a stop sign. At the time of the collision, the plaintiff had a motor vehicle insurance policy with the defendant, which contained a ... More...
$0 (08-20-2024 - CT)Emil Jay Greenberg v. AIG Property Casualty Company
New Haven, Connecticut insurance law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a bad faith breach of contract theory.<br> <br> If an insured believes that his insurance company acted in bad faith, he can file a complaint with the Insurance Department. He can also file a civil lawsuit alleging a breach of the implied duty of good faith and fair dealing or tortious bad faith.<br> <br> If a court ... More...
$1 (01-31-2024 - CT)Lisa Miro v. City of Bridgeport, et al.
New Haven, Connecticut civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiff who sued defendants on a Job Discrimination (Employment) theory. <br> <br> Job discrimination is illegal in the United States. There are a number of federal laws that protect workers from discrimination in employment, including:<br> <br> Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964: This law prohibits discrimination on the basis of... More...
$1 (08-11-2023 - CT)Sean Adams v. Commissioners of Corrections
This petition for habeas corpus arises from the state's failure to correct the false and misleading testimony of one of its key witnesses in the trial of the petitioner, Sean Adams, who, following that trial, was convicted of murder and other offenses, and sentenced to 100 years in prison. The respondent, the commissioner of correction, appeals from the judgment of the Appellate Court, which rever... More...
$0 (07-23-2013 - CT)<h2 State of Connecticut v. Sean Adams
Sean Adams, petitioner, was convicted by jury verdict of:<br> <br> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Murder, a violation of General Statutes Sec. 53a-54a, which provides for a penalty of not less than 25 years nor more than life incarceration (statutorily defined as 60 years); Conspiracy to Commit Murder, violations of C.G.S. Secs. 53a-48 and 53a-54a, which provides for a penalty of not less than on... More...
$0 (04-26-2005 - CT)Sean Adams v. Commissioner of Corrections
<br> The petitioner, Sean Adams, appeals from the judgment of the habeas court<br> <br> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â [17 A.3d 480]<br> <br> denying his amended petition for a writ of habeas corpus. On appeal, the petitioner claims that the court improperly concluded that he failed to prove that the state withheld impeachment evidence in violation of Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83, 87, 83 S.Ct. ... More...
$0 (05-03-2011 - CT)John Mara v. Stephen Rilling, Edward Nook, Frederick Hine
<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://www.jud.ct.gov/external/imgs/kids/Supreme-today3.jpg"><br> </center><br> On interlocutory appeal from an order denying summary<br> judgment entered in the United States District Court for the District<br> of Connecticut (Chatigny, J.), defendants contend that they are<br> entitled to qualified immunity from plaintiff’s suit charging them<br> with violat... More...
$0 (04-10-2019 - CT)William A. Valls v. Allstate Insurance Company
<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://www.jud.ct.gov/external/imgs/kids/Supreme-today3.jpg"><br> </center><br> <br> This appeal arises from the multitude of lawsuits filed by<br> Connecticut homeowners whose basement walls were likely<br> constructed with defective concrete manufactured by the now‐defunct<br> J.J. Mottes Company—the so‐called “crumbling concrete cases.”<br> ... More...
$0 (04-02-2019 - CT)Donna L. Soto v. Bushmaster Firearms International, LLC, et al.
<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://www.jud.ct.gov/external/imgs/kids/Supreme-today3.jpg"><br> </center><br> On December 14, 2012, twenty year old<br> Adam Lanza forced his way into Sandy Hook Elemen-<br> tary School in Newtown and, during the course of 264<br> seconds, fatally shot twenty first grade children and six<br> staff members, and wounded two other staff members.<br> Lanza carried... More...
$0 (03-15-2019 - CT)Gary W. Richards v. Direct Energy Services, LLC
<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Seal_of_the_United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Second_Circuit.svg/300px-Seal_of_the_United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Second_Circuit.svg.png"><br> <h2> <font color="red"><h2> </font> </h2><br> </center><br> <br> Plaintiff‐Appellant Gary W. Richards (“Richards”) entered into an<br> el... More...
$0 (02-04-2019 - CT)Salvatore Cappetta v. Commissioners of Social Security Administration
<center><br> <img width="200" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/US-SocialSecurityAdmin-Seal.svg/1200px-US-SocialSecurityAdmin-Seal.svg.png"><br> <center><br> 2 In 2009, an anonymous tipster reported to the Social Security<br> 3 Administration (SSA) that petitioner Salvatore Cappetta was working<br> 4 and earning substantial sums while receiving Social Security<br> 5 di... More...
$0 (09-23-2018 - CT)STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. NEMIAH ALLAN <table> <td>
This appeal is the companion case to State v. Evans, 329 Conn. , A.3d (2018), which we also decide today. The defendant, Nemiah Allan,1 appeals2 from the judgment of the trial court denying his motion to correct an illegal sentence. On appeal, the defendant claims that we should overrule State v. Ray, 290 Conn. 602, 966 A.2d 148 (2009), in which we interpreted General Statutes (Rev. to 2009) § 2... More...
$0 (08-16-2018 - CT)STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. ALRICK A. EVANS <table> <td>
The principal issue in this appeal is whether our decision in State v. Ray, 290 Conn. 602, 966 A.2d 148 (2009), which would require the defendant in the present case, Alrick A. Evans, to prove drug dependency as an affirmative defense to a charge under General Statutes (Rev. to 2011) § 21a-278 (b),1 remains good law in light of (1) the subsequent decision of the United States Supreme Court in Al... More...
$0 (08-16-2018 - CT)Mr. P. and Mrs. P v. West Hartford Board of Education, et al.
The plaintiffs‐appellants, Mr. and Mrs. P. (the “parents”), commenced this<br> action in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut<br> (Bryant, J.) on behalf of themselves and their son, M.P., against the<br> defendants‐appellees, the West Hartford Board of Education (the “District” or<br> the “Board”) and two District officials in their official capa... More...
$0 (04-02-2018 - CT)STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. RICARDO SWILLING <table> <td>
The defendant, Ricardo Swilling, appeals from the judgment of conviction, rendered following a jury trial, of kidnapping in the first degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-92 (a) (2) (A), home invasion in violation of General Statutes § 53a-100aa (a) (2), and assault in the second degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-60 (a) (2).1 Additionally, following the defendant’s pleas ... More...
$0 (03-31-2018 - CT)Tylon C. Outlaw v. City of Hartford
1 Appeal by plaintiff from so much of a judgment of the United States<br> 2 District Court for the District of Connecticut, Geoffrey W. Crawford, Judge, as granted<br> 3 summary judgment dismissing his claims against defendant City of Hartford (the<br> 4 "City"), brought principally under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, for failing to supervise its police<br> 5 officers with respect to appropriate use of force... More...
$0 (03-13-2018 - CT)STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. ANTHONY C. MANOUSOS <table> <td>
. The defendant, Anthony C. Manousos, appealsfromthejudgmentofconviction,renderedafter a jury trial, of arson in the first degree in violation of GeneralStatutes§ 53a-111(a)(1).Thedefendantclaims that the trial court improperly (1) denied his motions to suppress various tangible items collected from him, as well as oral statements that he made to the police during an investigatory stop and subseq... More...
$0 (01-19-2018 - CT)STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. RAYMOND TUCKER <table> <td>
The defendant, Raymond Tucker, appeals from the judgment of the trial court finding him in violation of probation pursuant to General Statutes § 53a-32. On appeal, the defendant claims that the court (1) erred in admitting a 911 recording into evidence, (2) erroneously found that the defendant had violated his probation, and (3) abused its discretion in imposing a sentence of three years incarce... More...
$0 (01-19-2018 - CT)UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. BRAYAN GOMEZ <table> <td>
In March 2014, Hartford police detective James Campbell and 10 <br> Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) special agent Michael 11 <br> Schatz––members of a DEA task force––were investigating a large‐12 <br> scale heroin‐trafficking organization operating out of Hartford.<br> Based on information from a wiretap and coopera... More...
$0 (12-30-2017 - CT)UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. BRAYAN GOMEZ <table> <td>
This appeal arises out of a traffic stop of Defendant‐Appellant 2 <br> Brayan Gomez. During surveillance in connection with a heroin‐3 <br> trafficking investigation in Hartford, Connecticut, officers observed 4 <br> Gomez commit several traffic violations and stopped his car. 5 <br> During the five‐minute traffic stop, the�... More...
$0 (12-08-2017 - CT)Chad E. Cohen and Kirsten Cohen v. Postal Holdings, LLC
Plaintiffs‐Appellants Chad E. Cohen and Kirsten Cohen (the “Cohens”)<br> filed a Complaint in the Superior Court for the State of Connecticut against<br> Defendant‐Third‐Party‐Plaintiff‐Appellee Postal Holdings, LLC (“Postal<br> Holdings”), stating a claim of private nuisance based on injuries allegedly caused<br> by Postal Holdings’s failure to maintain a p... More...
$0 (10-11-2017 - CT)STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. NINA C. BACCALA <table> <td>
Substitute information charging the defendant with two counts of the crime of threatening in the second degree and one count of the crime of breach of the peace in the second degree, brought to the Superior Court in the judicial district of Tolland, geographical area number nineteen, and tried to the jury before Graham, J.; verdict and judgment of guilty of breach of the peace in the second degree... More...
$0 (07-07-2017 - CT)UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. AYFER YALINCAK, HAKAN YALINCAK <table> <td>
In June 2006, Yalincak pled guilty to bank and wire fraud charges<br> stemming from a scheme to defraud investors in a sham hedge fund that<br> Yalincak purported to manage. On April 11, 2007, the district court sentenced<br> Yalincak to concurrent terms of 42 months’ imprisonment followed by<br> concurrent terms of supervised release and ordered him to pay $4,182,000 in<br> restitution to his v... More...
$0 (04-16-2017 - CT)<b>STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. J.M.F.* </b>
The defendant, J.M.F., appeals from the judgment of conviction of attempt to commit murder in violation of General Statutes §§ 53a-49 (a) (2) and 53a-54a (a), assault in the first degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-59 (a) (1), and risk of injury to a child in violation of General Statutes § 53-21 (a) (1). On appeal, the defendant raises the following seven claims:(1)thetrialcourtabu... More...
$0 (01-03-2017 - CT)<b>STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. JOSEPH WALKER </b>
The defendant, Joseph Walker, appeals from the judgment of conviction, rendered after a jury trial, of murder in violation of General Statutes § 53a54a (a), conspiracy to commit murder in violation of General Statutes §§ 53a-48 and 53a-54a (a), robbery in the first degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a134 (a) (2), conspiracy to commit robbery in the first degree in violation of General... More...
$0 (12-16-2016 - CT)<b>STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. MARK HAYWARD </ center></b>
The defendant, Mark Hayward, appealsfromthejudgmentofconviction,renderedafter a jury trial, of larceny in the first degree in violation of General Statutes §§ 53a-119 and 53a-122 (a) (2). On appeal,thedefendantclaimsthattherewasinsufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he intended to permanently deprivethe victim of his property. We affirm the judgment of the trial court. Th... More...
$0 (12-16-2016 - CT)<b>STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. CHARLES BRYANT, JR., </b>
Certain core principles underpin our search and seizure <br> jurisprudence. Individual privacy rights, especially in the <br> home, are among the most protected. As Justice Robert L. <br> Clifford wrote for the Court, “we are not dealing with a mere <br> formality but with an underlying great constitutional principle <br> embraced by free men and expressed in substantially identical <br> langu... More...
$0 (11-23-2016 - CT)<b>STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. ESTRELLA J.C.* </b></h2.
.Thedefendant,EstrellaJ.C.,appealsfrom the judgment of conviction, rendered following a jury trial,oftwocountsofriskofinjurytoachildinviolation of General Statutes § 53-21 (a) (2) and one count of risk of injury to a child in violation of General Statutes § 53-21 (a) (1). On appeal, the defendant claims that the trial court committed reversible error by (1) admitting into evidence a video record... More...
$0 (10-22-2016 - CT)<b>STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. ESTRELLA J.C.* </b></h2.
Thedefendant,EstrellaJ.C.,appealsfrom the judgment of conviction, rendered following a jury trial,oftwocountsofriskofinjurytoachildinviolation of General Statutes § 53-21 (a) (2) and one count of risk of injury to a child in violation of General Statutes § 53-21 (a) (1). On appeal, the defendant claims that the trial court committed reversible error by (1) admitting into evidence a video recordi... More...
$0 (10-08-2016 - CT)STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. ANDREW DICKSON
The issue that we must resolve in this certified appeal is whether we should overrule this court’s holding in State v. Smith, 200 Conn. 465, 469, 512A.2d189(1986),1andholdthatinherentlysuggestive in-court identifications are inadmissible even in the absence of a suggestive pretrial identification procedure. The defendant, Andrew Dickson, was charged withavarietyofoffensesafterheshotthevictim,Al... More...
$0 (09-07-2016 - CT)STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. JEFFREY P. GOULD
. The dispositive issue in this certified appeal is whether a trial court’s purportedly improper exclusionofaprospectivejurorforcauseontheground that he was ‘‘not able to speak and understand the English language’’ within the meaning of General Statutes § 51-217 (a) (3) constitutes per se reversible error. The defendant, Jeffrey P. Gould, appeals from the judgment of the Appellate Court... More...
$0 (09-07-2016 - CT)STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. DANIEL W. E.*
Following a jury trial, the defendant, Daniel W. E., was found guilty of two counts of sexual assault in the first degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-70 (a) (2) and one count of risk of injury to a child in violation of General Statutes (Rev. to 2001) § 53-21 (a) (2). The victim, his daughter, was between six and nine years old at the time of the assaults. The trial court rendered jud... More...
$0 (09-07-2016 - CT)STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. JAMES BAKER
The defendant, James Baker, appeals from the judgment of the trial court denying his motion to correct an illegal sentence filed pursuant to Practice Book § 43-22.1 After pleading guilty under the Alford doctrine2 to possessing a weapon or dangerous instrumentinacorrectionalinstitutioninviolationofGeneral Statutes § 53a-174a (a),3 the defendant was sentenced to eighteen months of imprisonment. T... More...
$0 (08-29-2016 - CT)STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. DEVONTE WEST
The defendant, Devonte West, appeals from the judgment of conviction, rendered after a jury trial, on one count of assault on a public safety officer in violation of General Statutes § 53a-167c (a) (5), one count of interfering with an officer in violation of General Statutes § 53a-167a, and one count of breach of the peace in the second degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-181 (a) (1)... More...
$0 (08-16-2016 - CT)STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. WILLIAM CONWAY HARPER
The defendant, William Conway Harper, appeals from the judgment of conviction renderedagainsthimafteracourttrialonchargesofcriminal trespass in the third degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-109 (a) and possession of less than onehalfounceofmarijuanain violationofGeneralStatutes § 21a-279a(a).1 Onappeal,thedefendantclaims(1)that the evidence was insufficient to support either of his cha... More...
$0 (08-16-2016 - CT)STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. TERRANCE L. RICE
The defendant, Terrance L. Rice, appeals from the judgment of conviction, rendered after a jury trial,ofunlawfulrestraintinthefirstdegreeinviolation of General Statutes § 53a-95 and breach of peace in the second degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a181(a)(1).Heclaimsthat(1)thestatepresentedinsufficient evidence to support his conviction, and (2) the court violated his right to confrontat... More...
$0 (08-15-2016 - CT)STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. BILLY RAY WRIGHT
This certified appeal requires us to consider a defendant’s rights and obligations when he seeks to advance a theory of defense that the police investigation into the crimewith which he was charged was inadequate. The state appeals from the judgment of the Appellate Court, which reversed the judgment of conviction of the defendant, Billy Ray Wright, of murder and remanded the case for a new tria... More...
$0 (07-27-2016 - CT)STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. DONALD SATURNO
The defendant, Donald Saturno, appeals from the judgments of conviction rendered by the trial court following his conditional pleas of nolo contendere, pursuant to General Statutes § 54-94a,1 to onecountofmanufacturingabombinviolationofGeneral Statutes § 53-80a and one count of possession of child pornography in the first degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-196d (a) (1). The defendant... More...
$0 (07-15-2016 - CT)STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. EDDIE A. PEREZ
This appeal raises the question of whether the trial court’s refusal to sever two unrelated criminal cases brought against the defendant, Eddie A. Perez,previouslyjoinedfortrialforpurposesofjudicial economy, improperly compromised the defendant’s right to choose whether to testify on his own behalf in one of the cases but to remain silent in the other. The AppellateCourtconcludedthatitdid,reve... More...
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