Thomas B Scheffey

January 07, 2016 | Connecticut Law Tribune

State prosecutor Harry Weller stood in a packed state Supreme Court chamber and attacked the court's August 2015 landmark decision that found the death penalty unconstitutionally cruel and unusual, and not in keeping with Connecticut's evolving standards of decency.

By THOMAS B. SCHEFFEY

6 minute read

November 04, 2015 | Connecticut Law Tribune

A Connecticut public defender who represents two former death row inmates is unhappy with continued efforts by prosecutors to persuade the state Supreme Court to reconsider a recent decision to abolish the death penalty in Connecticut.

By Thomas B. Scheffey

10 minute read

November 04, 2015 | Connecticut Law Tribune

A Connecticut public defender who represents two former death row inmates is unhappy with continued efforts by prosecutors to persuade the state Supreme Court to reconsider a recent decision to abolish the death penalty in Connecticut.

By Thomas B. Scheffey

10 minute read

October 30, 2015 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Ever since the death penalty was abolished in Connecticut, appellate lawyers in the Chief State's Attorney's Office have taken ambitious and unprecedented steps to keep it alive for the 11 men who were still on death row when State v. Santiago was decided.

By THOMAS B. SCHEFFEY

8 minute read

October 30, 2015 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Ever since the death penalty was abolished in Connecticut, appellate lawyers in the Chief State's Attorney's Office have taken ambitious and unprecedented steps to keep it alive for the 11 men who were still on death row when State v. Santiago was decided.

By THOMAS B. SCHEFFEY

8 minute read

July 30, 2015 | Connecticut Law Tribune

In the past year, the city of Stamford has become the poster child for the dangers of teacher-student sex and the serious consequences for professionals who fail to report suspicions. A long-running scandal has resulted in an array of media reports about criminal prosecutions, civil lawsuits and the derailments of school administrators' careers.

By Thomas B. Scheffey

11 minute read

July 30, 2015 | Connecticut Law Tribune

In the past year, the city of Stamford has become the poster child for the dangers of teacher-student sex and the serious consequences for professionals who fail to report suspicions. A long-running scandal has resulted in an array of media reports about criminal prosecutions, civil lawsuits and the derailments of school administrators' careers.

By Thomas B. Scheffey

11 minute read

June 16, 2015 | Connecticut Law Tribune

A long list of unwritten rules were broken in 1978, when Gov. Ella Grasso appointed Ellen Ash Peters to the Supreme Court.

By Thomas B. Scheffey

7 minute read

June 16, 2015 | Connecticut Law Tribune

In 1974, when a search committee picked Phillip I. Blumberg out of a field of nine candidates to be dean of the University of Connecticut School of Law, he far outshone the competition.

By Thomas B. Scheffey

10 minute read

June 08, 2015 | Connecticut Law Tribune

New Haven Housing Court Judge Steven Ecker talks about how people in his courtroom often try to hand him their cellphones. Not to shoot a selfie or anything like that, but in an attempt to get a text message or other digital data introduced as evidence in their cases.

By Thomas B. Scheffey

8 minute read