In the dramatic murder conspiracy trial of former New London attorney Beth Ann Carpenter, her lawyers tried to advance the pioneering defense of “codependent syndrome” to explain a mystery: Why had Carpenter not left the law firm or the embrace of her boss and lover Haiman Clein – knowing that he’d ordered a hit on her brother-in-law?
The state’s highest court last week all but guaranteed that question will never be put to a jury.
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