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The conviction of Alfred Swinton, found guilty in the notorious 1991 slaying of a Hartford woman found with teeth marks on her breasts and for years the suspect in the slayings of four other city women, is in jeopardy after new DNA testing ruled him out as the source of the bites, court records reveal.
The records also show that a forensic odontologist who testified against Swinton in 2001 has recanted, admitting in a signed affidavit that the science behind his initial opinion was...

Attorney Norm Pattis was in with Chaz and AJ to talk about the most difficult legal case he's ever taken on, defending the man who was found guilty of throwing his own baby over a bridge.

Today on "LoveBabz LoveTalk" host Babz Rawls-Ivy has an in depth conversation with Trial Lawyer Norm Pattis about his recent case, Politics, and his career.

The jury heard closing arguments Tuesday in the trial of a man charged with killing his 7-month-old son by throwing him off a bridge.
The prosecution and defense made their summations in Middletown Superior Court in the case of Tony Moreno. Jurors are now deliberating Moreno's fate.
Moreno is charged with murder in the July 2015 death of his son, Aaden. During his closing arguments, Middlesex State's Attorney Peter McShane said Moreno threw Aaden off the 90-foot-high Arrigoni Bridge...

A jury heard closing arguments on Tuesday, in the trial of a man charged with throwing his 7-month-old son off a bridge in Middletown.
Tony Moreno's case is now in the hands of jurors who will be deciding his fate.
Moreno is charged with murdering his son Aaden.
Last week, Moreno testified that the boy slipped out of his arms by accident and that he fell off the 90-foot-high Arrigoni Bridge into the Connecticut River.
According to court records, however, Moreno and the...

The man accused of killing his infant son by throwing him off the Arrigoni Bridge told jurors who will begin to decide his fate next week that his baby's death was an accident.
Tony Moreno, 23, testified Friday that he walked to the bridge to kill himself and brought 7-month-old Aaden along, but never intended to harm the child. He said he was holding Aaden and talking to him while standing at the bridge railing, pointing out landmarks including the movie theater where he first kissed the...

A Connecticut man charged with killing his 7-month-old baby by throwing him off a bridge testified Thursday that he dropped the boy and did not intend to harm him.
Tony Moreno cried before the jury as he demonstrated with a doll how he was holding his son, Aaden, before the baby plunged off the 90-foot-high Arrigoni Bridge over the Connecticut River in July 2015. Moreno then jumped from the bridge himself, but survived. Two days later, Aaden's body was found downstream from the bridge...

Tony Moreno, accused of throwing his 7-month-old son, Aaden, off the Arrigoni Bridge to his death, told jurors Thursday he went to the bridge to kill himself, not his son.
"Did you intend to kill your son, Aaden Moreno on July 5, 2015?" defense attorney Norman A. Pattis asked a tearful Moreno as he sat at the witness stand in Superior Court.
"No," Moreno answered.　
"What happened?" Pattis asked.
"I dropped him," Moreno replied.
Moreno's emotionally charged...

Tony Moreno had just regained consciousness from a near coma and was not in a condition to voluntarily waive his rights when police took a confession about 14 hours after he is accused of killing his son, his attorney said Monday during arguments about whether jurors should hear Moreno's hospital-bed statements.
Moreno, 23, is accused of throwing his 7-month-old son Aaden off the Arrigoni Bridge in July 2015. He faces charges of murder and risk of injury to a child when his trial begins...

While police and fire crews frantically searched the Connecticut River for 7-month-old Aaden Moreno in 2015, the lead detective in the case rushed to Hartford Hospital to talk to the father about his son's location as hope of finding the child alive quickly faded.
Middletown Det. Dane Semper testified at Superior Court in Middletown Thursday that he interviewed Tony Moreno in the hospital's intensive care unit and asked him where Moreno might have thrown the boy into the river from the...