criminal justice

Frankie & Johnny: January 13, 2023. Topics this week include the sales launch of marijuana for recreational use; efforts by Connecticut officials to erase cannabis convictions in tandem with the broadening of adult-use pot in Connecticut; and the success of the University of Connecticut women’s basketball team in the face of mounting injuries.

A judge ruled Thursday that attorney Norm Pattis engaged in misconduct in not safeguarding “highly confidential” records of plaintiffs suing Jones in Connecticut.

The new police chief in Bridgeport, Conn., said he is focused on increasing staffing, improving officer morale and building community trust.

This is the first Christmas that Connecticut prisoners will be able to make and receive phone calls for free. The state was the first in the nation to stop charging for prisoner calls.

In Connecticut, violent crime declined between 2020 and 2021 according to statistics released on Thursday by the state’s Office of Policy and Management.

Connecticut Department of Correction commissioner Angel Quiros has said his agency would recommend criminal charges against any employees implicated in fraud while using a pandemic hotel program created to quarantine prison workers.

This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, The Nose investigates the Jodi Kantor/Megan Twohey/Harvey Weinstein movie ‘She Said’ and the true crime podcast ‘Bone Valley.’

The city of New Haven says it’s working on a settlement with attorneys representing a Black man who was partially paralyzed in police custody earlier this year.

Norm Pattis, the attorney representing Infowars host Alex Jones in a $1 billion defamation lawsuit over lies about the Sandy Hook school shooting, could face a six-month suspension. A local superior court judge is investigating Pattis' role in the sharing of “highly confidential” records, and the chief disciplinary counsel for the state judicial branch is recommending Pattis be suspended.

This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, our pop culture roundtable, The Nose, looks at the Taylor Sheridaniverse: ‘Yellowstone,’ ‘1883,’ and ‘Mayor of Kingstown.’