Shaun Smith resigned from Springfield’s police department in 2020. The Vermont Criminal Justice Council could permanently revoke his law enforcement certification at a hearing next month.
The violation resulted in the dismissal last month of a child sexual assault case, and concerns over the responsibility of prosecutors to share with defendants evidence that the state holds.
The judge called Remick’s claim that the State’s Attorney’s Office had no potentially exculpatory material in its possession “not only an inaccurate response, it is misleading.”
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION A Vermont judge tossed out a criminal case charging a Weathersfield man with sexual assault against a juvenile, ruling from the bench on the eve before the five-year-old case was to begin trial that the state prosecutor withheld.
BURLINGTON The accused killer in a gruesome murder discovered nearly four years ago has filed a motion in federal court to suppress evidence found in two bags, one containing