A demand by Joshua Komisarjevsky’s importunate lawyers that Dr. William Petit, the sole survivor of a murderous attack on his family, should be sequestered during the trial of Mr. Komisarjevsky has not been met by Mr. Petit with a correlative demand that Mr. Komisarjevsky’s lawyers should also be sequestered. Among other things, sequestration might keep their unreasonable demands out of the media and in the courts, where they might be dealt with more swiftly than the unnecessarily prolonged Komisarjevsky case.
Casey and her mother Wendy "I just started grief counseling. I'm always sad. I'm sad and in pain and I miss her." Wendy Hartling Hartling is the mother of Casey Chadwick, murdered in 2015 by Jean Jacques , an illegal Haitian immigrant. Jacques was convicted of the murder of Chadwick in a New London Superior Court jury trial and sentenced by Judge Barbara Bailey Jongbloed to a 60 year term in prison. Since Jacques is 44 years of age, the sentence was, in effect, a life sentence. Connecticut Commentary coverage of the Chadwick murder may be found here , and here and here . Jacques could not have been sentenced to death because Connecticut’s Democrat dominated General Assembly, under pressure from the state Supreme Court, had abolished Connecticut’s death penalty law in 2012 . The slaughter of Chadwick was particularly brutal. Her body had been found by a friend who, opening a door to a closet, discovered Chadwick stuffed in a dark corner drenched in blo...
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