Lawlor appointed top prosecutor of Bridgeport court
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Exterior, Fairfield County Courthouse on Golden Hill Street.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut Media
BRIDGEPORT A state prosecutor with more than 20 years of experience was appointed Tuesday the new supervisor of the prosecutor’s office in the Golden Hill Street courthouse.
Senior Assistant State’s Attorney Ann Falsey Lawlor was appointed by State’s Attorney Joseph Corradino to replace retiring Supervisory Assistant State’s Attorney Cornelius P. Kelly at the geographical area or GA court.
“Neil Kelly’s retirement presents me with the loss of both a valued colleague and daily interaction with a friend of nearly 30 years and with an incredibly difficult decision, but I am pleased that I have so many outstanding people from whom to choose,” Corradino said.
Prosecutors believed justice was served nearly two decades ago when Adrian Peeler was sentenced to a combined 60 years in state and federal prisons for his roles in Bridgeport’s cocaine trade and the 1999 killings of an 8-year-old murder trial witness and the boy’s mother.
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FILE - In this July 1, 2016 file photo, Russell Peeler Jr., speaks in Bridgeport Superior Court, in Bridgeport, Conn., where he was sentenced to two consecutive life terms without the possibility of release. Connecticut and federal prosecutors are fighting a proposed prison sentence reduction for Peeler, a former Bridgeport drug dealer convicted in the killing of an 8-year-old murder trial witness and the boy s mother. (Ned Gerard/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP, Pool, File) January 11, 2021 - 9:02 AM
HARTFORD, Conn. - Prosecutors believed justice was served nearly two decades ago when Adrian Peeler was sentenced to a combined 60 years in state and federal prisons for his roles in Bridgeport s cocaine trade and the 1999 killings of an 8-year-old murder trial witness and the boy s mother.
Adrian Peeler, 44, was sentenced to 60 years in state and federal prison for drug dealing and the deaths of Karen Clarke, 30, and her son, Leroy B.J. Brown, eight, in Bridgeport, Connecticut.