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How attorneys are using #MeToo to defend their clients accused of sexual assault

Jul 25 - The Inquirer Daily News

After Ari Goldstein’s hearing last week on sexual assault charges, his attorney said the accuser had ulterior motives — that it is simply a case of “#MeToo gone wild.”
“The...

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What Happens When You Try to Join the Mile High Club?

We all want to know: What kind of trouble can you get into if you’re caught?

Jun 25 - Travel + Leisure

There have been Mile High Club stories for as long as there have been airplanes — or at least, it feels that way.
With so much information circulating the internet on “how to” join,...

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Danbury once again ordered to rehire a police officer

Jun 5 - News Times

The state’s arbitration board has ordered the city to rehire veteran Police Officer Daniel Sellner.
Sellner was fired three years ago after the city accused him of using excessive force during an...

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Skakel's Successful Appeal - Lawyer Norm Pattis says New Trial Likely

May 20 - Associated Press Radio

What happens now that Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel's murder conviction, in the 1975 bludgeoning death of a 15-year-old girl, was overturned by the Connecticut Supreme Court. AP correspondent Julie Walker...

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Moxley’s mom ‘disappointed’ as Skakel’s conviction tossed

Tells Herald she’ll keep fighting to ‘find justice’

May 5 - Boston Herald

The elderly mother of Martha Moxley, the teen allegedly bludgeoned to death with a golf club in Connecticut by Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel decades ago, said she’ll spend the rest of her life working to...

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Court Vacates Murder Conviction of Kennedy Nephew Michael Skakel

The divided court ordered a new trial in the case that garnered national and international attention.

May 4 - Connecticut Law Tribune

By a 4-3 ruling late Friday, the Connecticut Supreme Court vacated the 1975 murder conviction of Michael Skakel, nephew of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s widow Ethel Kennedy. The divided court ordered...

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Connecticut Supreme Court Tosses Conviction of Kennedy Cousin Michael Skakel

May 4 - Law & Crime

In an extremely rare move, the Connecticut Supreme Court reversed its own previous decision in the case of Michael Skakel, a cousin of the Kennedy family. The court on Friday ruled that Skakel did not receive...

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Pattis on Bill Cosby Verdict

Apr 27 - Fox 61

Norm Pattis talks with news anchor about the most recent Cosby verdict.

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The Yale Rape Trial Isn't Over Yet

A criminal court cleared Saifullah Khan of the charge of raping a fellow undergraduate, but he's about to face a campus committee.

Mar 22 - The Weekley Standard

The March 7 acquittal by a New Haven jury of a suspended Yale student on charges of raping a classmate has been much lamented on campus and in the national media. But a review of the evidence shows that the...

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Juror in Saifullah Khan Yale Rape Case Says Acquittal Was Justified: 'I Think He's Innocent'

"I think he doesn't deserve this, and I think it's sad."

Mar 12 - Reason

A jury acquitted former Yale student Saifullah Khan last week of committing rape on Halloween night in 2015. If you read Time, The New York Times, The Yale Daily News, or any number of other mainstream media...

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