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CT triple homicide defense lawyer almost in contempt for violating gag order to get facts straight

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Komisarjevsky lawyer avoids contempt hearing, for now by William Kaempffer, New Haven Register, with video at the link: An attorney for one of defendants in a Cheshire triple homicide argued Tuesday he was merely setting the record straight — and not intentionally violating a court-imposed gag order — when he told reporters on the courthouse steps last month that his client did not rape an 11-year-old victim before she was killed. Superior Court Judge Roland Fasano held off on ruling whether defense attorney Jeremiah Donovan should face a criminal contempt hearing for his Sept. 24 comments to the media outside New Haven Superior Court but strongly scolded the veteran lawyer and former prosecutor for actions the judge viewed as an “affront to the authority of the court...continue to full post

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on October 26, 2010 (boomark / email).