When, a few weeks ago, Gov. M. Jodi Rell nominated her final bunch of judges, including some people who had served her administration and were being rewarded, there was objection from legislative leaders and even the judiciary itself that the judges weren’t needed, or at least not as much as the money to support them was needed to maintain judicial facilities, whose appropriations had been cut.
And yet, as people might have noticed from the recent conviction and death sentencing of the first defendant in the Cheshire mass murder case, it took the state more than three years to get from arrest to trial in the worst atrocity in Connecticut’s history even when there was no question about the defendant’s guilt. And it will take close to four years for the second defendant.
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