The state Appellate Court has overturned the disorderly conduct conviction of an attorney who threatened to shoot two water company employees when they came onto his property. Laurence Parnoff, 73, of Stratford, had claimed that his statements were constituitionally protected and, in the course of a lengthy examination of what constitutes “fighting words,” the three judge-panel agreed.
“We respect, but respectfully disagree, with the Appellate Court’s decision, and we will be seeking to have the Supreme Court review it,” said Deputy Chief State’s Attorney Len Boyle.
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