Published March 11. 2021 9:57PM
HARTFORD (AP) A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Connecticut prison officials are imposing detention conditions that are too harsh on a former death row inmate convicted of killing a police officer, ordering the state to relax those conditions.
Richard Reynolds, convicted of killing Waterbury officer Walter Williams in 1992, is detained at Northern Correctional Institution in Somers under the highest Level 5 risk level. He says he is confined to his cell 21 to 22 hours a day and has no interaction with any inmates in the general population conditions he claims are unconstitutional.
Three judges on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City upheld a lower court judge and ruled Reynolds constitutional rights to equal protection are being violated, because two other former death row inmates are classified at a Level 4 risk level that allows them to live in the general population. They ordered that Reynolds be detained in sim
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Anthony Todt, the Colchester physical therapist accused of killing his wife, three children and family dog in Florida, is set to face jury trial in September.
The trial, set by Judge Keith Carsten of the Osceola County 9th District Court, will begin on Sept. 27. Lawyers for both the prosecution and defense notified the court they would be unavailable until that date. Todt appeared before the court virtually Wednesday morning from the Osceola County Jail. He also had a pretrial hearing set for Sept. 15.
In December 2020, an order was signed transferring Todt’s case from Judge Wayne Wooten and Felony Division 201 to Carsten and Felony Division 301. Divisions 201 and 301 are both in Osceola County, Fla. Todt’s attorney, Public Defender Robert Wesley, filed a motion for continuance of the pretrial conference because “additional time is needed in order to prepare this case for trial,” and, “The accused previously waived speedy trial,” wh
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dozens of civil rights and advocacy organizations are calling on the Biden administration to immediately halt federal executions after an unprecedented run of capital punishment under President
FILE - This undated file image provided by Attorneys for Lisa Montgomery shows Lisa Montgomery. An appeals court granted a stay of execution Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021, for Montgomery, convicted
BALTIMORE — Dustin John Higgs, who was convicted of murdering three women in Prince George’s County in 1996, was executed early Saturday morning, the 13th federal inmate put to death