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    The Connecticut Supreme Court, formerly known as the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors, is the highest court in the U.S. state of Connecticut. It consists...
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    Assembled in 1781, chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court from 1784 to 1785, and the 18th Governor of Connecticut from 1786 until his death. He was...
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  • Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United...
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    The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction...
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  • In the United States, a state supreme court (known by other names in some states) is the highest court in the state judiciary of a U.S. state. On matters...
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  • This is a list of justices of the Connecticut Supreme Court. A total of 47 justices served on the Supreme Court of Errors. Day, Thomas (1809). Reports...
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    Courts of Connecticut include: State courts of Connecticut Connecticut Supreme Court Connecticut Appellate Court Connecticut Superior Court (13 districts)...
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    District Court for the District of Connecticut (in case citations, D. Conn.) is the federal district court whose jurisdiction is the state of Connecticut. The...
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    The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest-ranking judicial body in the United States. Its membership, as set by the Judiciary Act of 1869...
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    Connecticut's judicial branch is the Connecticut Supreme Court, headed by the Chief Justice of Connecticut. The Supreme Court is responsible for deciding on the constitutionality...
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  • Murder of Martha Moxley (category Crimes in Connecticut)
    December 30, 2016, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled 4–3 to reinstate Skakel's conviction. The Connecticut Supreme Court reversed itself on May 4, 2018...
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  • Palko v. Connecticut, 302 U.S. 319 (1937), was a United States Supreme Court case concerning the incorporation of the Fifth Amendment protection against...
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  • James E. Murphy (category Justices of the Connecticut Supreme Court)
    James E. Murphy (1897-1986) was a Supreme Court justice in Connecticut. Murphy served in the US Army during World War I and following it, attended Notre...
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    subpoena power under Connecticut General Statutes §2-46. Recent decisions by the Connecticut Supreme Court, the state supreme court, have clarified and...
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    County court from 1776 to 1804, and served on the governor's council from 1780 to 1803. Simultaneously, he was a judge of the Connecticut Supreme Court of...
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    The Connecticut Superior Court is the state trial court of general jurisdiction. It hears all matters other than those of original jurisdiction of the...
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    renamed the Connecticut Supreme Court), the Kentucky Court of Errors (renamed the Kentucky Supreme Court), and the Mississippi High Court of Errors and...
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    death. Their sentences were vacated in August 2015, when the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty was unconstitutional and retroactively...
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  • Geer v. Connecticut, 161 U.S. 519 (1896), was a United States Supreme Court decision, which dealt with the transportation of wild fowl over state lines...
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  • Joan K. Alexander (category Justices of the Connecticut Supreme Court)
    1962) is an associate justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court. She served as a judge the Connecticut Appellate Court from 2020 to 2022. Alexander earned...
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    Associate Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court (1992-2011) Christine E. Keller, 1977, Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court Edward Kennedy, Jr., 1997...
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    Maria Araújo Kahn (category Justices of the Connecticut Supreme Court)
    United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She previously served as an associate justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court from 2017 to 2023...
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  • 1976 United States Supreme Court decision in Gregg v. Georgia until Connecticut repealed capital punishment in 2012, Connecticut had only executed one...
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  • Cantwell v. Connecticut, 310 U.S. 296 (1940), is a landmark court decision by the United States Supreme Court holding that the First Amendment's federal...
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    The Colorado Supreme Court currently consists of a chief justice and six associate justices. From the court's formation until 1905, it had three members...
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    Western tradition. Thus, Connecticut earned its nickname of The Constitution State. The document is notable as it assigns supreme authority in the colony...
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  • Raheem L. Mullins (category Justices of the Connecticut Supreme Court)
    American lawyer who has served as an associate justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court since 2017. Mullins graduated from the Watkinson School in Hartford...
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  • of all of the individuals who have served on the Supreme Court of Missouri. Missouri's Supreme Court had three judges from 1820 until 1872, when it was...
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    the Connecticut Supreme Court. Despite his loss in the Democratic primary, John Gomes won the nomination of the Independent Party of Connecticut and secured...
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    was dismissed in superior court and was appealed to the Connecticut Supreme Court. In March 2019, the Connecticut Supreme Court reinstated the wrongful...
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