A Connecticut man has filed a lawsuit against the city of Hartford and a forensic expert he claims withheld evidence in a murder investigation that led to him being tried twice before the state Supreme Court overturned his conviction and a third jury acquitted him of all charges. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted) )

A Connecticut Supreme Court justice on Wednesday faulted the state legislature for failing to detail how a state constitutional amendment protects alleged crime victims’ rights, leaving others on the court to question whether or how to acknowledge the competing rights of a former Yale University student acquitted of sexual assault. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted) )

In a seeming reversal of a Tuesday order, the Connecticut Appellate Court on Wednesday allowed the ACLU’s Connecticut litigation arm and five other legal advocacy groups to file friend-of-the-court briefs in a case questioning whether an unapproved amicus brief in a separate case defamed an acquitted ex-Yale student. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted) )

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