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West Hartford Courant: Governor Malloy Needs to Reconsider Sandy Hook Records Ban
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"...But Connecticut should know very well that there sometimes are wrongful shootings by police.
A reminder came the other day with the suicide of a former New Milford police officer who committed such a shooting in 1998, killing a criminal with a shot to the back as he lay restrained on the ground. The officer was convicted of murder, won a new trial, and then pleaded guilty to a lesser charge, criminally negligent homicide, losing his career, and, some think, his life. (The shooting likely was the accidental discharge of a service pistol with a hair trigger, worsened by the officer's trying to excuse it by concocting a story that the criminal had made a sudden threatening move.) Presumably if Connecticut's new law on murder scene photos had been in force back then, important evidence in this case would have been withheld from public review."
[link to www.westhartfordnews.com]
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