Credit Governor Rell and state legislative leaders for not affecting shock about the failures of the state’s criminal-justice system that have been exposed by the atrocity in Cheshire. If the governor and the legislators now know what to do, it is only because they have known all along.
Most cited if not most significant among these failures is the state parole board’s having released the suspects in the Cheshire atrocity without obtaining transcripts of their sentencing proceedings as state law long has required. Why were the transcripts missing? Because prosecutors have never complied with the law.
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