Source: https://www.normpattis.com/noteworthy-cases.php
Timestamp: 2019-04-19 01:19:24+00:00

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The firm is currently awaiting rulings from the Connecticut Supreme Court on the scope of fighting words and true threat exceptions to First Amendment free speech rights in the cases of State v. Sarnoff, a case involving hostile speech directed at utility company workers on the private property of a homeowner, and State v. Taupier, a case involving alleged threats against a family court judge.
In United States v. Bello, the firm sought to overturn the conviction of a white-collar defendant in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on grounds that her sentence amounted to an unlawful trial tax imposed in violation of the Sixth Amendment.
In J. Michael Farren v. Commissioner, the firm is seeking habeas corpus relief for a former Deputy White House counsel convicted of attempted murder of his wife on grounds that he had been deprived of the right to conflict free counsel at the time of his trial.
In Reyes v. State of Connecticut, the firm is seeking a new trial for a man convicted of arson after newly discovered evidence emerged that the arsonists with whom he was convicted of conspiring were actually working for someone else at the time the fires in question were set.
The firm appeared in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Federal Court of Claims in Washington, D.C., to advance the takings claims of a broadband license holder in Apline, PCS v. FCC.
State v. Saifullah Khan, acquittal of a Yale student accused of sexually assaulting a classmate.
State v. Jonathan Gibbs, acquittal of murder charges after the defendant told police he shot at the victim in a case involving the theft of a pair of sneakers.
State v. Larry Johnson, acquittal of murder charges in a case involving the point blank shooting of a man who had hours before the shooting stabbed the defendant.
People v. Anna Gristina, after a handful of lawyers managed to land, and keep, the “Manhattan Madam” behind bars on a huge bond, the firm successfully fought to reduce her bond, and get her released from prison; she cut a deal with the state that kept her client’s secrets secure and kept her out of prison.
State v. Lucian Wintrich, dismissal of charges against speaker at University of Connecticut who used force to retrieve notes stolen from him by a campus activist upset that he was asserting politically incorrect views.
Of course, most cases are resolved by way of plea negotiations, a record of trial success yields better offers.

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