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Alex Jones, a conspiracy theorist who falsely claimed the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax, has replaced two of his lawyers in multiple lawsuits brought against him by parents of children killed in the 2012 school shooting.
The host of the right-wing conspiracy outlet Infowars is being sued by nearly a dozen Sandy Hook parents in four separate defamation cases for his repeated claims that the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, that left 20 children and six adults dead was staged. He has...

The lawyer for the only defendant in the patient-abuse case at Whiting Forensic Hospital to hold out for trial has accused the state of witness tampering, citing the suspension of two Whiting workers who had spoken in support of another defendant at his sentencing hearing earlier this year.
In a motion filed Wednesday in Superior Court in Middletown, attorney Norman Pattis said the suspensions of forensic nurse Sarah Lukman and treatment worker Lori Hubbard amount to intimidation. He said...

Infowars host Alex Jones, who is being sued for calling the Sandy Hook shooting a hoax, has hired a controversial Connecticut lawyer to defend him.
“I was aware he wanted to hire another lawyer and now I’m in the case,” confirmed New Haven lawyer Norman Pattis. “I’m looking forward to the fight, there is a lot to talk about in the case.”
Pattis replaces Jones’ original lawyer, Jay Wolman.
Jones is being sued in Superior Court in...

A prosecutor says William Shehadi, with a long-term psychiatric illness and having spent 24 years at Whiting Forensic Hospital, is not competent to swear an oath and be cross-examined by the lawyer representing the former nurse charged with abusing him — conduct that was captured on video.
Defense lawyer Norman Pattis takes a different view. He noted at a hearing in Superior Court in Middletown Tuesday that the video from Shehadi’s room is soundless. He said he wants Shehadi...

The lawyer for a key defendant in the patient-abuse scandal at Whiting Forensic Hospital is expected to argue Tuesday that the profoundly mentally and physically ill victim should be brought into the courtroom for questioning — a move prosecutors and lawyers for the patient are expected to vigorously oppose.
Attorney Norman Pattis, who represents Mark Cusson, a former forensic nursing supervisor at the maximum-security psychiatric hospital, has issued a subpoena for patient William...

A local bail bondswoman was acquitted recently on charges she misappropriated money from a client, but her husband will face a jury next week for the same case.
Dameisha Moore, 42, was cleared last week of accusations she failed to return $65,000 held as collateral on an appeal bond.
“The truth came out,” said Moore, who founded Moore Bail Bonds in the 1990s.
“Justice was served,” she said. “There is a God.”
The money was deposited...

Chaz and AJ surprised attorney Norm Pattis with a task; to defend the woman from Dumb Ass News that stabbed her boyfriend 13 times. He found a way to make it sound legitimate!

As jury selection began in the murder trial of Darnell Moore in New London Superior Court, his attorney, Norm Pattis, noticed something about the first three groups of possible jurors - there were very few African Americans in fact only three out of the 117 people on the panels.
Pattis argued to the judge that Moore, who is African-American, had his right to a fair trial violated because the jury wasn’t a representative cross section of his peers. The judge ruled against him, Moore...

A lawyer for Tony Moreno, the Middletown man who was convicted of killing his infant son in 2015, argued in front of the state’s highest court Thursday that his client deserves a new trial because he was medicated and not in the right frame of mind when police questioned him in his hospital bed.
Moreno was convicted of murder and risk of injury to a child in 2017, two years after throwing his 7-moth-old son Aaden off Middletown’s Arrigoni Bridge. Moreno was sentenced by Judge...

A man convicted of killing his infant son by throwing him off a bridge headed to the state's highest court on Thursday.
Tony Moreno, 24, was sentenced to 70 years in prison in 2017 for throwing 7-month-old Aaden off of the Arrigoni Bridge in 2015.
On Thursday, attorneys on both sides talked to a panel of seven judges about whether or not police made mistakes while interviewing Moreno in his hospital room.
Moreno's attorney, Norm Pattis, said that Moreno was interviewed while...