For about three hours during a trial recess, attorney Jeremiah Donovan was not permitted to speak to a client about his testimony. Was the brief ban enough to hinder his defense of Benjamin Andrews, the former Connecticut NAACP leader and Republican activist?
Donovan, of Old Saybrook, says yes. But his request for a new trial for Andrews, who was convicted in 2003 on bribery and other charges related to a state pension kickback scheme, was denied last week by three judges from the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Donovan later told the media that he will ask the full appeals court to overturn the ruling of the three-judge panel. If that fails, Donovan said he may try to take his arguments about the communication ban to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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