When the State’s Attorney’s office argues before the Connecticut Supreme Court, the justices want those arguments to be consistent. And apparently the justices take a dim view when a state’s attorney tries to “finesse” the court.
That’s what happened to Senior Assistant State’s Attorney Timothy Sugrue, who in January argued a position before the court that was in direct contradiction to a stand his office took on another Supreme Court case only a few months earlier. And despite Sugrue’s assertion that his stand on the matter was the official one of the State’s Attorney’s office, Chief State’s Attorney John Bailey has informed the court in writing that that’s not true.
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