Maybe in spite of its several recent scandals, Connecticut’s court system is wonderful on the whole, at least better than the court systems of many other states, which, critics of Connecticut’s courts may not always realize, have their own scandals too. (For example, while the discovery that an innocent man has been convicted of rape and has wrongly served 18 years in prison is one of Connecticut’s recent court scandals, in Texas that sort of thing is common and a matter of indifference.)

Connecticut’s problem is that the agencies evaluating its courts are not independent enough.

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