Top Bail Bondsmen Cop Pleas In New Haven

By PAUL BASS
New Haven Independent

A family bail-bond dynasty may have ended as three members of the Jacobs family pleaded guilty Wednesday to bribing a top city cop. Defense attorney Willie Dow (pictured) predicted that it could cause a "disaster" for the court system if the Jacobses now lose their licenses.

Robert, Phil and Paul Jacobs took turns saying "guilty" just as the clock struck noon inside the Church Street courtroom of U.S. District Court Judge Janet B. Arterton.

They admitted they paid bribes to former Lt. Billy White to track down clients who owed them money.

The pleas by the operators of New Haven's leading bail-bonds firm capped a two-and-a-half-hour proceeding that took place partly in private because of references to confidential informants in an ongoing federal probe of corruption in New Haven's recently disbanded, soon-to-be-reconstituted police narcotics unit.

Prosecutor Nora Dannehy portrayed Robert Jacobs, the white-haired 80-year-old family patriarch who has insured defendants' bonds for 50 years, as the ringleader of the operation, who personally arranged to pay the bribes to former Lt. Billy White. White pleaded guilty last week to accepting bribes and stealing suspected drug dealers' cash.

"I paid money to William White, a police officer in New Haven, to apprehend fugitives who were on bond to me or my sons, and I knew the payment was illegal," Robert Jacobs told Judge Arterton. "When somebody was missing who we were actively looking for, William White would ask if it was worth apprehending him."

Prosecutor Dannehy recommended that Robert Jacobs serve between 30 to 37 months in jail and pay a fine of up to $60,000. The government's recommended sentences for Paul and Phil Jacobs are for 18 to 24 months in jail and a $40,000 fine apiece. In addition, the three defendants will repay a combined $750,000 in forfeited funds under the agreement.

Arterton is scheduled to sentence them on Feb. 27.

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With Daniel J. Krisch
Center For First Amendment Rights

Doninger Amicus Margulies

Quinnipiac To Host Student Free Speech Forum

A Certain College Application Essay

Disregarding Mama Cocoa Puffs

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "What's Going Down In Enfield?":

>Cocco's mother has been calling people asking them to vote against the party

At his age, he still lets his Mommy do his political biddin'. Unreal.

The only reason the Tats are asking folks to vote against their party is that they're mad the Democrats have finally turned on them. But who could blame the Dems. Who wants to have Mayor Cocoa as a ball &chain around your political ankle.

I'm voting for Enfield's Republican this year - regardless of what Mama Cocoa Puff wants. Has nothin' to do with her, trust me!



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No Child Left Unsearched

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The drug dogs are coming. We don't know when, but the heads-up was given this week in the form of a letter to parents, informing them of the legality of such searches. I understand the rationale, accept that it is legal and am generally in favor of measures to make our school safer, but the scenario--cop cars screeching into the parking lot, sirens blaring, the lockdown procedure and presence of German Shepherds--alarms me.

I see that elsewhere in the country administrators are playing policeman: " School officials at Monarch High in Louisville are committing felonies and violating students' privacy by seizing students' cell phones, reading their text messages and making notes about it in students' permanent files, the ACLU warned Wednesday."

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Quinnipiac To Host Student Free Speech Forum

Doninger Case Featured



On Thursday, Nov. 8 at 5 pm in the Faculty Commons, QU Law's American Constitution Society (ACS) will host "The State of Student Free Speech," a discussion that will be led by Prof. Martin B. Margulies and Anne H. Littlefield, a Partner at the firm Shipman & Goodwin and a teacher of Education Law at QUSL.

The discussion will explore the scope of authority of public schools to limit otherwise protected speech by students in light of Morse v. Frederick, 127 S.Ct. 2618 (2007) and Doninger v. Niehoff, 2007 WL 2523753.

We would like to extend to any and all of you, and your students, a warm invitation to join this frank, intellectual discussion on the treatment of the First Amendment in schools. Food and refreshments will be served at the event, plenty for all.

We will soon have articles concerning the topics of our events available if you are interested in learning more.

Please email at Bradley.Hoffman@quinnipiac.edu ; kmcasini@quinnipiac.edu; for any more information or if you have any questions or comments.

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Doctoral Student To Avery: Keep On Punching

School Authorities Continue To Break Law In Connecticut

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Liberty Will Trump Illegitimate Authority

Free Speech Issues Span State

Right to free speech tested on campuses
Students in conflict with educators

BY MATTHEW O'ROURKE
REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN
Oct. 30, 2007

A university tells Connecticut students when to publish, a racial cartoon raises questions about decency, and a teenager criticizes a school administrators' decision to stop a music festival on her Web log.

Free speech has come under the microscope after three incidents at schools across Connecticut. Some see students' rights on a slippery slope, while others believe lessons can be learned to improve dialogue among different groups of people.

After an incident last spring, Quinnipiac University officials now reserve the right to review and withhold information that may be released in its student-run newspaper. Central Connecticut State University administrators have decided to use a cartoon and opinion column as a way to educate students about sexual assault. And Region 10 officials have refused to comment on a student's decision to publish derogatory comments on a personal Web site and the subsequent court battle.

When staff writers for the Quinnipiac Chronicle received reports of racial slurs written on students' dry eraser boards in August, they wanted to report it on their Web site.

But they couldn't, because Quinnipiac University's student-run newspaper had made an agreement with school administrators that barred them from posting stories before the paper went to print.

"What was decided (last year) was that the electronic version would come out at the same time as the hard-copy version so at least dinosaurs like me who read the hard copy version get an opportunity to read it before the external world hears about it," University President John Lahey was quoted as saying in an Oct. 24 Chronicle article.

The Recorder at Central Connecticut State University came under fire after publishing an editorial headlined "Rape Only Hurts If You Fight It" last spring. The opinion piece gained national attention and sparked student protests against the paper on campus. In September, the paper was at it again when it published a cartoon that mentioned locking a Latino girl in a closet and urinating on her.

University President Jack Miller formed a task force to review journalistic integrity in student media on campus after the spring incident. While the task force's report suggested hiring a faculty adviser and the creation of a journalism major, it did not recommend the school take steps to remove the paper's editor in chief, Mark Rowan.

Avery Doninger, a senior at Lewis S. Mills High School in Burlington, was barred from running for re-election for class secretary after she criticized Region 10 administrators in a derogatory way in an online posting at Livejournal.com from her home computer in April. Doninger,17, said she was upset that school officials had planned to cancel "Jamfest," a battle of the bands event held in the school's gym that she had helped to organize. She had held the student-elected position during her freshman, sophomore and junior years, and won a write-in candidacy that was later thrown out by administrators.

When Doninger was approached by Principal Karissa Niehoff and asked to step down from her position and withdraw her candidacy, she refused.

Doninger and her parents filed a lawsuit against Niehoff and Superintendent Paula Schwartz, stating that school administrators had violated her First Amendment rights.

Courage & Leadership: The Roads Not Taken By Schwartz & Niehoff

Courage & Leadership: The Roads Not Taken By Schwartz & Niehoff

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By ALDON HYNES

It has been a while since I wrote about the Avery Doninger case, but things are continuing to progress. On October 17th, the National School Boards Association sponsored an online forum on the Educational Benefits of Social Networking for Students and Teachers?.

Will Richardson led the discussion. He has a great blog about blogging and education. I had submitted a question to him about Avery’s case and he responded,

Without knowing the specifics of this particular case, it's hard to know exactly what options the administration had. But I would have to ask what this particular reaction teaches the students? The reality is that we simply cannot control what people are going to write or say about us these days, and that there are all sorts of gray areas that go along with these situations. I wonder, however, whether the administrators themselves are modeling the appropriate use of these technologies for their students, and whether or not the use of blogs and other social tools are being taught in the curriculum. I think the biggest reason students make poor decisions at times about the uses of these technologies is that no one is teaching them how to do it well and they have few models for their use.

There are many important points that Will brings up. The first is that we simply cannot control what people are going to write or say about us these days. Actually, we never could. It is just now, what gets said about us is searchable and persistent.

As to whether the administrators themselves are modeling the appropriate use of these technologies for their students, and whether or not the use of blogs and other social tools are being taught in the curriculum, I don’t know. I surely haven’t been able to find Paula or Karissa’s blogs yet.

I cannot help but wonder how things would have turned out differently if, instead of prohibiting Avery from running for re-election, Paula Schwartz had set up her own blog with a post something like,

Recently, a student leader, frustrated about developments concerning Jamfest, posted an entry on her blog referring to staff at the central office as Douche Bags. We appreciate her passion and commitment to the student body, but we don’t think that the way she expressed herself reflected well on her, or helped advance her case. What do you think? Please join Principal Niehoff and me for an open symposium on how to advocate effectively online. It will take place…

That would have shown courage and leadership. It would have been an opportunity to build better bonds with the students, teachers and citizens of Region 10. It would have taken advantage of a teachable moment, and made it available to the community. Unfortunately, even now, Superintendent Schwartz and Principal Niehoff have failed in this area.

The same is not true with Avery.

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Doctoral Student To Avery: Keep On Punching

Doctoral Student To Avery: Keep On Punching

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Punishment For Blog Entry
An Affront To Free Speech


Civil-rights marches, pro-life gatherings and globalization protests all rely on our right to challenge authority in a public forum. Free speech is the keystone holding a democracy together. Yet according to Jim Spinner (Oct. 18 letter, "First Amendment does not excuse rude comment on blog"), speech can be curtailed to protect "tenuous authority" if it is deemed inappropriate. Can you imagine the struggles of Gloria Steinman succeeding if the right to challenge authority was stripped from our democracy?

I do not suggest Avery Doninger's fight for extracurricular activities equates the aforementioned struggles. Her comments, while rude and inappropriate, still stand on principles of free speech that built this country. I am sure at some point in his life Mr. Spinner has criticized a teacher, a boss or a politician in a public place. Should his job be in jeopardy?

The school administrators, by stripping Ms. Doninger of her right to represent her peers in student government, could be placing her possibility of acceptance to college in peril, all because she gathered with friends on today's street corner — blogs, Facebook or MySpace pages — and made inappropriate comments. She is being punished for the normal discourse of teenage years, and that is an affront on free speech.

The most egregious mistake, however, made by Mr. Spinner is to lay fault at the feet of Ms. Doninger's parents and not at the footsteps of our educational institutions. Ms. Doninger's comments were inappropriate and they were read by the world, but maybe if we better prepared our students with the literacy skills they need for a digital world, she would have understood the consequences of her words. Instead, we teach students to regurgitate facts from textbooks, not evaluate "truth" from Web sites; lead class in front of chalkboards, not on discussion boards; and we teach students to write five-paragraph essays, not blogs, wikis and Web pages.

Ms. Doninger's plight grew from an outdated curriculum and not out-of-touch parenting. As parents, educators and citizens we must recognize the Internet has caused a monumental shift in literacy not seen since Gutenberg invented the printing press. If we continue to teach using texts that students will never encounter outside of the classroom, then there will be more students such as Ms. Doninger who pay the price of not learning the new literacies needed to be a global citizen. Keep fighting, Avery. You're in good company.

Greg McVerry

Plymouth

The writer is a doctoral student at the University of Connecticut studying literacy and technology and is a member of UConn's New Literacies Research Team.

School Authorities Continue To Break Law in CT

Papa Time, Pancakes & Tuesdays With Sienna

By RICHARD MEEHAN

The Cool Justice Report
www.cooljustice.blogspot.com
Oct. 29, 2007

EDITOR'S NOTE: This column is available for reprint courtesy of The Cool Justice Report, http://cooljustice.blogspot.com

There are transitions in life that I've come to appreciate as the years speed by.

As young parents we waited for the first step, the first word, filling up each successive baby book. In a heartbeat the toddling turned to T-ball, then basketball, high school, college, even law school. Still, the family kept growing. With five sons we have watched a thousand games, endured stitches in the emergency room and danced at some weddings.

We are waiting now for our eighth grandchild. Tyler Thomas Meehan is going to be his name.

He's to be followed in pretty short order by another, as our third married son and his wife are expecting as well. Luca Meehan is due to land here around St. Patrick's Day. That's pretty fitting for a kid with an Irish last name and a Sicilian first name. After all, wasn't St. Patrick an Italian who drove the snakes from Ireland? Well, he was really born in Rome-dominated Britain, but who knows for sure ...

My wife has prided herself on the accomplishment of raising five sons, an oddity in our age group when most families are much smaller. Her license plate, BOYSX5, proudly proclaims it, although as Yankee fans we are constantly warding off claims that we are part of the Red Sox Nation.

Through the years we've remarked how different it would be if we had little girls. We became accustomed to the rambunctious nature of little boys struggling to become young men. A run of six granddaughters has helped us understand the differences.

I've coached baseball, basketball and football -- we could never figure soccer out. The garage and shed were always crammed with skateboards, bats, gloves, cleats and a dozen basketballs. At one point we actually had three hoops up in our driveway, one dedicated to what the boys called "small ball." That's where they hung the hoop 8' off the ground and practiced Jordanesque dunks off trampolines. There were a few ER trips surrounding some of the less than spectacular dunks!

For the last eight years we have learned of Barbie dolls and Hannah Montana. With each successive grandchild we've tried to find some unique connection.

I decided that I wanted them to call me "Papa" rather than grandpa. With each one as they struggled to learn new words I would lobby for "Papa, Papa. . ." There was clearly a method to my madness since soon after saying Mama and Dada, Papa was an easy third for each of them.

On sleepovers I would awaken early, coffee in hand, waiting for a stirring in the bedroom we made over just for them. As soon as I heard a peep I'd crack open the door and ask, "What time is it?"

"Papa time!" would be the instant gleeful response. I always found those mornings sitting on the couch, a young granddaughter cuddling with her bottle and blanket, to be special moments -- Papa time.

My wife, of course, related so much better to them throughout the rest of the day. When Papa time was over then grandma ruled. I soon needed another approach. Mickey Mouse shaped pancakes became my specialty. From there we evolved to Christmas trees, stars, and pumpkin pancakes. Of course, being only the Papa, and not charged with their daily nutrition, I lavished those pancakes with sprinkles, colored sugar and food coloring. Pancakes have become the ritual Papa time once was.

My son Brian, the expectant dad of Tyler, made his daughters pancakes the other day and Arianna, the six-year-old, remarked, "Dad, their okay but their not Papa's!"

Our newest toddler is 15-month-old Sienna. Her mom had gone back to work and Tuesdays were my wife's days to watch her. She would pick her up from her dad early and bring her home. I found myself arranging my appointments and court cases to free up those Tuesday mornings with her.

Our grandchildren have been an immense source of joy. We've endured sorrow as well as grandparents when we lost our then three month old grandson, Christian, to SIDS four years ago. These new little boys soon to arrive have brought back many thoughts of that little guy that we knew for so little time.

When I was coaching son number three, Danny, in baseball, one of his teammate's dads was my assistant, Walt Sibiski. That fellow's dad came to every practice and every game, pitching in with anything the kids needed. I marveled at the devotion that Grandpa Sibiski paid to that grandson. When Danny called last week to tell us that the ultrasound revealed that they were having a little boy I saw bit of Grandpa Sibiski begin growing in me.

My boys have spoken lovingly through the years of both of their grandpas, gone now. Each had some unique quality that they saw and cherished. Whether it was trips to Florida with one or New York Giant football games and fishing with the other, the memories will always be special. From that I've learned the importance of being a loving grandpa. That love lingers far after you've gone. I'd like to think that years from now when these children are making pancakes for their own kids they will always think of Papa time and smile.

Bridgeport attorney Richard Meehan Jr. was the lead defense counsel for former Bridgeport Mayor Joseph Ganim's corruption trial. Meehan is certified as a criminal trial specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy since 1994 and serves on the organizations Board of Examiners. He is a Charter Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America -- Trial Lawyer Honorary Society. Meehan has also obtained multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements in complex medical and dental malpractice and personal injury litigation. He is a past president of the Greater Bridgeport Bar Association and appears regularly on Court TV. Website, www.meehanlaw.com

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The administration that governs Lawrence S. Mills High School gets worse and worse all the time. The screw-up's began when the school's seemingly vindictive principal decided to prohibit senior Avery Doninger from running for class secretary. Doninger had referred to the school superintendent as a "douche bag" on her LiveJournal after a lot of wrangling and what seems like miscommunication concerning the use of the high school gym for a battle of the bands.

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a rose is a rose has left a new comment on your post "Watching Over Our Children":

the 'flamin' in front of douchebags is a MOST EXCELLENT touch!(andof course you and i can say that because we're NOT students at col klinkhigh)

(keep your fingers crossed)



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THE ENFIELD FEDERAL SAVINGS TAX BREAK BY THE ENFIELD TOWN COUNCIL WAS THE BIGGEST EXAMPLE OF STEALING, FROM THE HARD WORKING TAX PAYING PEOPLE OF ENFIELD I AVER HAVE SEEN. SHAME ON YOU TOWN COUNCIL. THIS FALL VOTERS SHOULD NOT VOTE FOR ANY INCUMBENTS, AS A PROTEST.



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What's Going Down In Enfield?

Buffalo Springfield Version

Not necessarily the news,
but you might get the idea
to keep your ear to the ground ....


There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind
I think it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side
It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away
We better stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, now, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

Enfield Malfeasance Saga Trail

Probe Expands

Do Green Condos Glow In The Dark?

Enfield Republican Leader Kaupin Rips Cocoa Puffs' Phony Probe

Duh

Dangerous Muzzling

Turner To Cocoa Puffs:

Cocoa Puffs To Citizens:

Enfield Tax Derelicts

Cocoa Puffs Berserk Redux

Link To JI & Comments

Leave The Sisters Alone

Watching Over Our Children

SEPARATED AT BIRTH?

-- Col. Klink & Paula Schwartz?

-- Sgt. Schultz & Karissa Niehoff?

See You At The Second Circuit

DONINGER 2ND CIRCUIT APPEAL BRIEF

Avery Doninger Case Readers Digest Version

Avery Doninger, a senior at Lewis S. Mills High School in Burlington, CT,has civil rights actions pending in the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City and U.S. District Court in New Haven. She and her mother, Lauren Doninger, sued Principal Karissa Niehoff and Superintendent Paula Schwartz after they removed Avery from the ballot for Class of 2008 secretary.

Avery Doninger was among a group of four students who lobbied the community for support of an annual battle of the bands sponsored by the Student Council. The student council adviser suggested the students reach out to taxpayers and the students copied the adviser an on email to the community.

Schwartz became very upset after taxpayers called her and she cancelled the event known as Jamfest. Doninger subsequently referred to administratorsin a live journal blog as central office douchebags, and Schwartz's son found the posting while trolling the internet for his mother a couple weeks later. WhileAvery Doninger was banned from school office, another student who called Schwartz a dirty whore was given an award and lauded for citizenship.

School officials suppressed the write-in vote in which Doninger was elected by a plurality. Schwartz refused to accept Doninger's apology for her choice of words. During an assembly, Niehoff banned free-speech and Team Avery t-shirts and seized at least one shirt.

The Doningers are seeking -- among other remedies -- an apology for civil rights violations, recognition of the write-in victory and sharing of the secretary position with the administration-backed candidate.

U.S. District Judge Mark Kravitz denied a motion for a preliminary injunction [immediate relief] and his ruling is being appealed to the Second Circuit.

Dirty Whore Court Exhibit

Douche Bags Flunked Civics

Taxpayer To Duffy

Cerebral Giant -- NOT

School Board Silent

Hero Of The Day

Among FOI Complaints

Insurance Mumbo Jumbo

Slice & Dice Douche Bag # 1

"Andy Sipowicz" Weighs In

Mom Happy Inmate Escaped

Orient Lodge Comments

Verboten @ Lewis Mills

"We Don't Normally Do That"

Testimony Demolishes Burlington School Bosses

Sister Courage Goes To Court

ACLU-Ct Supports Avery Doninger

Liars, Damn Liars And School Officials

DONINGER WON BY WRITE IN VOTE

When Speech Is Part Of The Crime

No First Amendment Rights For Sexual Predators


By RICHARD MEEHAN

The Cool Justice Report
www.cooljustice.blogspot.com
Oct. 25, 2007

EDITOR'S NOTE: This column is available for reprint courtesy of The Cool Justice Report, http://cooljustice.blogspot.com


The United States Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Monday that law enforcement officers investigating sexual predators may pose online as children without violating the First Amendment rights of the targeted predator.

In United States v. Gagliardi, the court rejected the defendant's claim that he was engaging in role playing fantasy. Gagliardi claimed that the law "impermissibly suppresses fantasy speech with adults who happen to be posing as minors."

His lawyers argued that the law used to convict him required an actual child victim. The Appeals Court rejected constitutional challenges to the law as vague and overbroad.

Penal laws -- those that define criminal conduct -- must be precise and circumscribed so as to provide clear notice that the failure to conform to that law constitutes a crime. When a law -- particularly one implicating speech -- can be viewed as also criminalizing otherwise innocent or innocuous conduct, it is viewed as overbroad. That is, it ensnares the innocent and the guilty alike with no distinction. If the terms of the law are so vague that its plain meaning does not provide precise notice of the conduct it criminalizes, then that law is unconstitutionally vague.

Gagliardi was convicted of attempting to entice a child to engage in prohibited sexual activity.

Chris Hanson's To Catch a Predator series provides a real life view of the epidemic of child internet predation. Typically, as so many of Hanson's targets proclaim, the predator believed he was engaging in fantasy role playing and thought he was meeting an adult, or at least someone above the legal age of consent. Decoys from PrevertedJustice.com, a vigilante group, pose as children available for sex. In most federal cases, vigilante organizations are not employed. Federal or state law enforcement agents, trained in the art of communication in the cybersex world, patrol chat rooms playing the role of underage teens. Sensitive to the issue of entrapment federal investigators will not instigate the sexual banter, but react to the lead of the target predator.

Entrapment has been tried and generally has failed as a defense in such cases. The defendant who raises the defense of entrapment must, of necessity, admit his participation in the crime, claiming instead that he resisted and only succumbed because of undue pressure from law enforcement. In the usual case the government will endeavor to prove that the defendant possessed a predisposition to commit the offense. Once predisposition is proven the defense of entrapment fails. Typically those trolling fantasy role playing chat rooms have multiple hits from undercover agents, a fact clearly indicative of predisposition. Following an arrest, the seizure and forensic inspection of the defendant's computer often reveals emails or child pornography that also demonstrate his proclivity to commit this conduct -- independent of the opportunity offered by an undercover cop online.

In the typical investigation a target reveals himself in chat rooms like "I love older Men" or others similarly named to suggest adults looking for underage sex. These chat rooms are also occupied by adults who want to fantasy role play, whether as the minor or the adult. In the typical internet sting the undercover allows the predator to take the conversation to specific sexual acts, encouraging, without suggesting. Arrangements are then discussed for a meeting. The First Amendment is not truly implicated by these chats, standing alone. If the target never makes an attempt to meet the subject, the chatting alone has not been found to violate any laws. Once the effort is made to meet, however, state and federal crimes are violated.

In some investigations the police conduct a surveillance of the suspect the first time he travels to the appointed location, but do not arrest at that time. There then follows continued online chatting about why the "child" failed to show and another rendezvous is scheduled. The initial surveillance helps establish the real identity of the predator as well as corroborate the fact that he intends to have sex at the meeting. The feds refer to these as "Traveler" cases, so named because the target is encouraged to travel to meet the intended victim.

In Connecticut's state court the offense charged is Criminal Attempt to commit Risk of Injury to a Minor, as well as Criminal Attempt to commit Sexual Assault. There are multiple degrees of sexual assault depending on the conduct and the age of the victim.

In 2006 the Connecticut Supreme Court rejected a claim that in the absence of an actual minor, there was no real attempt to commit these crimes. In State v. Sorabella the court rejected a number of legal challenges to this type of prosecution, making it clear that in Connecticut, the Cybersex Traveler faced major prison time.

In the federal court the usual charge is Use of an Interstate Facility -- the Internet and online electronic communication -- to Attempt to Persuade a Minor to Engage in Sexual Activity. Often the accompanying language includes Sexual Assault in the Second Degree and Risk of Injury to a Minor in violation of Title 18 United States Code §2422 (b).
The government must prove the defendant believed with victim was under the age of 18.

That offense carries a maximum prison sentence of 30 years, a $250,000.00 fine, and a mandatory minimum penalty of 5 years in prison, following which the court can impose a term of supervised release up to life. Although the age of consent in Connecticut is generally 16 -- unless a teacher, coach or other supervisor is involved -- federal prosecutions raise that age level to 18 for these crimes.

Those found to have traded child pornography, a common activity among the cyber predators, are charged with the additional federal crime of Transportation of Child Pornography in violation of Title 18 United States Code § 2252A(a)(1). That offense carries a maximum of 20 years and a mandatory minimum of 5 years, with the same fine and supervised release provisions as the traveler offense. Under federal sentencing guidelines the offenses are grouped for sentencing purposes, and depending on the number of child porn images found, sentences range well into the double digits.

The framers of the Constitution never envisioned that the freedom they empowered in the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech would be used to shield this type of conduct. The Court of Appeals reiterated an established rule of constitutional law that speech is not protected by the First Amendment when it is the "very vehicle of the crime itself."


Bridgeport attorney Richard Meehan Jr. was the lead defense counsel for former Bridgeport Mayor Joseph Ganim's corruption trial. Meehan is certified as a criminal trial specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy since 1994 and serves on the organizations Board of Examiners. He is a Charter Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America -- Trial Lawyer Honorary Society. Meehan has also obtained multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements in complex medical and dental malpractice and personal injury litigation. He is a past president of the Greater Bridgeport Bar Association and appears regularly on Court TV. Website, www.meehanlaw.com

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Doninger 2nd Circuit Appellate Brief Oct. 24, 2007

Doninger Appellate Brief / 2nd Circuit Court 10/24/07

FOI Bombshell Re; Illegal Closed-Door Meeting

COMPREHENSIVE POSTING: Avery Doninger Free Speech Federal Hearing Transcripts

My Daughter's Eyes

N O W
A V A I L A B L E

My Daughter's Eyes
and Other Stories by Annecy Báez

http://www.curbstone.org/bookdetail.cfm?BookID=198


My Daughter's Eyes and Other Stories, winner of the 2007 Mármol Prize, is a collection of fourteen interrelated stories about young Dominican women living in the Bronx as they deal with the choices they make in their daily life. These stories span three decades, beginning in the 1970s, and their topics range from mother-daughter struggles, father-daughter betrayal, family, and child abuse, to emerging sexuality, love, loss and healing.

Reminiscent of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, My Daughter's Eyes contains stories about various compelling neighborhood characters so that collectively these stories have the impact of a novel, characterizing the dramatic changes that can occur in an immigrant's life.

Annecy Báez's daring treatment of taboo themes, such as sexual child abuse and the struggle of the individual against restrictive traditional values, makes this book unique in Dominican fiction.

My Daughter's Eyes
http://www.curbstone.org/bookdetail.cfm?BookID=198

My Daughter's Eyes by Annecy Báez | Original Paperback | Curbstone

Pub date: November 2007 | ISBN: 978-1-931896-38-2 | 178 pages | $15

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Bush: More Important Than Bombing Iran -- I'll Protect Sanctity Of Marriage In Fiction

Seeks to Ban Marriage Between
Fictitious Gay Characters

Harry Potter Revelation Prompts President’s Move

By ANDY BOROWITZ
www.borowitzreport.com

Just days after “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling revealed that the popular professor character Albus Dumbledore was gay, President George W. Bush told the nation that he would seek a ban on fictitious gay weddings.

In a nationally televised address last night, Mr. Bush said that he devote the rest of his term in office to obtaining a constitutional amendment banning marriage between fictitious gay characters.

“In order to protect the sanctity of marriage in the real world, we must first protect the sanctity of marriage in fiction,” Mr. Bush said. “This is the most pressing goal of my Administration – even more important than bombing Iran.”

While the president’s address was for the most part consistent with his earlier statements on gay marriage, it was uncharacteristic in that it demonstrated an awareness of books.

And in attacking the Mr. Dumbledore’s right to wed, Mr. Bush may have raised the ire of one of the most militant constituencies in the U.S.: Harry Potter fans.

Jude Ralston, 34, one of over 5,000 Potter devotees who dressed as Dumbledore to protest the president’s speech outside the White House last night, said that Mr. Bush could be playing with fire: “Harry Potter fans take these things very seriously, and we don’t have anything else going on in our lives.”

As for Dumbledore’s gayness, Mr. Ralston said that he had overlooked obvious clues the first time he read the books: “I, like, totally missed that scene in the airport bathroom.”

Elsewhere, a national survey of slutty nurses shows that they are undecided about what to go as for Halloween.

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I went to the council candidates’ debate tonight (signs at the entrance pictured), and I am preparing a full-length report. The most notable portions of the debate were perhaps the disagreement between Ragno and Mangini near the end about whether we ought to worry about the 2% of taxes that are not being collected, a strange rumor that Pat Crowley wouldn’t finish out another term (he seemed taken aback by the accusation and stated that he would, indeed, finish his term if elected) and the constant mentions of taxes as a top issue by candidates from both parties. The questions prepared by the EHS Youth Vote Program were great, and I found the debate very interesting.

Any thoughts on the debate, for those who were there? Also, if anyone out there was at Friday’s debate (which I couldn’t make), thoughts on that event are absolutely welcome as well.

Posted: October 22nd, 2007 under 2007 election.
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Comment from Orrin Thompson
Time: October 22, 2007, 11:17 pm

Chris, I heard the rumor that Pat Crowley was planning to win and resign on Friday.

Earlier in the year, Tony DiPace was going to run for the council and the democrats were ready to nominate him. Of course Tony’s tenure at P&Z has been controversial to say the least. He was stopped in his tracks by the outcry over the Montessori lawsuits, which have been a big waste of money.

Enter Tony’s brother Pat Crowley. When it was clear that nominating Tony would sink the democrats, a plot was hatched to sneak him in the back door: Pat Crowley would run for election and resign shortly afterwards. The democrats would then appoint Tony to fill out Pat’s term.

That debate question may have blown the wind out of that plot- this would be why Crowley was surprised. Too many people knew his secret.

This is all the insider politics that has come to the surface the past couple years. Notice that with the last Montessori lawsuit- the historical district one- that only a handful of people showed up to testify against the plan: Tallarita, Troiano, and Crowley (DiPace’s brother). Do you see how all these relationships work? This is how power is exercised in Enfield and has been for many years.

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Boston Common Rally Saturday Against Iraq War

OCTOBER 27:
NATIONAL DAY
OF ACTION
AGAINST THE IRAQ WAR

On Saturday, October 27th, people from all walks of life will gather in Boston for a massive New England regional demonstration, part of a nationally coordinated day of protest against the war in Iraq called by United for Peace and Justice. Regional demonstrations will be held in 11 cities around the country. The New England event will start with a rally at the Boston Common bandstand starting at Noon, followed by a march to Copley Plaza from 2:00 to 3:00 PM.

The Boston demonstration is being organized by New England United, a coalition of a large number of peace and anti-war organizations in the New England area. The action in Boston has been endorsed by over a hundred organizations including several state labor federations, and the list is growing daily.

For more information on the event, please visit the New England United website at http://newenglandunited.org/ . LINK AT BOTTOM.

New England United is working together with allied groups around the region to build a massive protest on October 27 and to help create a social movement that can stop the Iraq war and shift the political agenda in this country to further global justice and fund human needs. Following are the central demands that have been endorsed by New England United: "Bring All The Troops Home Now; End All Funding for the Iraq War Now; Support Our Communities, Fund Human Needs; No Attack on Iran; Stop the Attacks on Civil Liberties, Defend Human Rights."

Speakers for the event include noted historian Howard Zinn; John Olsen (President, Connecticut AFL-CIO); Felix Arroyo (Member, Boston City Council); Gabriel Camacho (Proyecto Voz, American Friends Service Committee); Shep Gurwitz (Veterans for Peace); Liam Madden (Iraq Veterans Against the War); Merrie Najimy (American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee); Wayne Smith (Unitarian Universalist Service Committee); Rostam Pourzal (Iranian-American specialist on human rights); Dahlia Wasfi (Iraqi-American MD); Jessica Zamiara (student, University of Vermont), and members of Gold Star Families for Peace and Military Families Speak Out. The event will also include cultural performances by Son of Nun (political hip-hop), David Rovics (topical folk) and other artists and groups. The final program will be announced shortly.

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SPEAKER BIOS

Salma Abu Ayyash
Human Rights Activist

Salma Abu Ayyash, a Palestinian-American Cambridge resident, is a mother, an actress, an engineer and an activist for Palestinian rights. She currently teaches science at a Boston High School. She is co-founder of Tawassul (T-a-w-a-s-o-l), a non-profit organization for promoting Palestinian arts and culture which recently produced the first Boston Palestine Film Festival.

Melida Arredondo
Gold Star Families for Peace

Mélida (pronounced MEH-lee-duh) Arredondo is a first generation Costa Rican American born in New York City. She grew up with a physical disability and as the interpreter for her Spanish speaking family. She obtained her Bachelors from UMASS Boston and a Masters from Florida International University.

Her two stepsons Alex and Brian and husband Carlos have been the center of her life since marrying in 1997. When Alex made his first adult decision at the age of 17 to join the United States Marine Corps, she opted not to oppose for many reasons. The US was not at war. The challenges of being a divorced family made her wants to seek familial peace. She opted not to protest despite Alex wanting her to speak out if she chose.

A year after Alex was killed, Carlos and she began to tour the country lecturing about the injustices related to war, lack of supplies for the GIs, diminishing Vet benefits, the plight of military families, recruitment targeting of Latino youth and their own personal story. Mélida has written several opinion pieces in community newspapers and blogs. She has appeared on local, national and international television and radio. She lives in Roslindale, MA with her husband and two dogs.

Felix Arroyo
Boston City Councillor

A resident of Boston for over 25 years, Boston City Councillor Felix D. Arroyo is a public servant, educator, organizer, activist, father, and grandfather. Raised in a public housing project by his late father, Felicito Arroyo, a World War II Veteran and police detective, and his late mother, Elisa Arroyo, a garment seamstress and an ILGWU member, Councillor Arroyo was instilled with a deep respect for hard work and education.

Councillor Arroyo was the first member of his family to earn a college degree. He completed his undergraduate studies and received a Masters in Secondary Education at the University of Puerto Rico. Councilor Arroyo continued with his graduate studies at Harvard University, MIT, and the University of Puerto Rico.

Councillor Arroyo has served as a Boston City Councillor At-Large since January 2003. He has advocated for the equitable distribution of services to Boston's wonderfully diverse neighborhoods. He has focused his work on six critical issues facing the Council and Boston – Education, Affordable Housing, Economic Vitality, Health, the Environment, and Public Safety.

Councillor Arroyo shocked many in 1992 when he resigned from his salaried position as the Director of Personnel for the City of Boston to accept a volunteer position on the Boston School Committee. Serving on the School Committee for eight years, he led the fight to preserve bilingual education, opposed the MCAS as the key criterion for grade promotion or graduation, and sought to preserve services for children with special needs.

Medea Benjamin
Global Exchange, Code Pink

Medea is a cofounder of both CODEPINK and the international human rights organization Global Exchange. She has been a tireless advocate for social justice for more than 20 years. Described as "one of America's most committed -- and most effective -- fighters for human rights" by New York Newsday, and called "one of the high profile leaders of the peace movement" by the Los Angeles Times, Medea has distinguished herself as an eloquent and energetic figure in the progressive movement.

Gabriel Camacho
Project Voice - American Friends Service Committee

Gabriel Camacho was born in the South Bronx. His Mexican father first came to the U.S. under the infamous Bracero "guest" worker program which lasted from the 1940's to the early 1960's. His Colombian mother fled that country in the 1950's during the ten-year civil war known as La Violencia. Both parents worked in unionized industries in New York City where they met.

Gabriel majored in Anthropology at the State University of New York in Albany. He conducted his field work in El Ki’ché in 1979, where he witnessed the Guatemalan military occupation of the Maya Highlands.

Gabriel has been a life long union member and has worked as a union organizer and contract negotiator for the Service Employees International Union, and the Hotel Employees Restaurant Employees International Union. In 1999 Gabriel founded the Massachusetts Chapter of the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, a national constituency group charted by the AFL-CIO.

Currently Gabriel is President of the Board of Directors of Centro Presente, an immigrant based community organization in Cambridge; and Chair of the Executive Committee of Massachusetts Jobs With Justice, a community &union coalition; and a member of UNITE HERE Local 66L at the AFSC.


Shep Gurwitz
Veterans for Peace

Shep Gurwitz served with the 196th light infantry brigade and the 173rd airborne in Vietnam between 1967-1968. He has been an activist with Vietnam Veterans against the War , the Council for Native American Solidarity, Veterans for Peace and has worked to promote peace for, many years. He worked with the Dakota Youth project and is currently working with Veterans for Peace to stop the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

After returning from Vietnam, as part of the nation-wide protest against the U.S. mining of Haiphong Harbor, Shep was one of a group of veterans who occupied the U.S.S. Constitution, Old Ironsides, in Boston Harbor. He has spoken across the U.S., in Canada, Britain and Holland, and in recent years has teamed up with members of Iraq Veterans Against the War to speak in community forums across New England.


Liam Madden
Iraq Veterans Against the War

Liam Madden serves on the Board of Directors of Iraq Veterans Against the War. Liam is a native of Vermont who recently completed a four year commitment with the United States Marine Corps. Following his tour in Iraq, Liam co-founded the Appeal for Redress, a campaign of over 2,000 service members who demand that congress end the war in Iraq. Liam is currently a student at Northeastern University in Boston.

He has been interviewed by numerous national publications and media outlets including 60 minutes, CNN, Al Jazeera, The Nation Magazine, National Public radio, BBC
and more. He has undertaken a speaking tour of college campuses and I organized an IVAW bus tour to east coart military installations this summer.


Merrie Najimy
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee

Merrie Najimy is President of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee of Massachusetts. The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is a grassroots civil rights organization based in Washington, DC which welcomes people of all backgrounds, faiths, and ethnicities as members. The local chapter of the ADC or ADCMA is committed to empowering Arab-Americans to embrace their identity and advocate for their civil rights in the state of Massachusetts. The ADCMA works towards this objective through civil rights advocacy, educating the general American population on Arab-American culture and issues, and by building community within Arab-Americans in Massachusetts.

A second generation Arab American, Merrie teaches elementary school in Concord, MA. Currently she is the president of the Massachusetts chapter of the ADC (ADCMA), a founder of the Boston Committee for Palestinian Rights, and the president of her teacher’s local, The Concord Teachers Association. As a teacher, she devotes much of her time to creating an active anti-bias curriculum that she implements with her students and trains teachers in anti-bias education.

John W. Olsen
AFL-CIO, CT

John serves as President of the Connecticut AFL-CIO. Headquartered in Rocky Hill, the state labor federation is comprised of approximately 900 affiliated unions. There are approximately 237,000 union members in Connecticut, with nearly 16 percent of all Connecticut workers belonging to a union. Mr. Olsen was first elected President of the state labor federation in 1988. He was most recently re-elected as AFL-CIO President in September 2001.

Under Mr. Olsen's leadership, the AFL-CIO's commitment to political education, legislative action, grassroots organizing and community mobilization has strengthened organized labor's voice as an advocate for all of Connecticut's working families. A native of Greenwich, CT, Olsen got his start in the labor movement as a journeyman plumber and went on to serve as President of UA Local 133, Plumbers and Pipefitters. In addition to his statewide labor leadership positions, Olsen also served as Secretary-Treasurer of the Connecticut State Building and Construction Trades Council.

Olsen also has more than 25 years of political activism and volunteerism. In December 2000, he was elected to serve as Chairman of the Connecticut Democratic Party. He has been a member of the Democratic National Committee, as well as the Democratic State Central Committee. In 1994, Mr. Olsen co-chaired the State Central Convention Platform Committee. He is a past chair of the Greenwich Democratic Town Committee and now sits on the Democratic Town Committee in Clinton, where he resides.

Mr. Olsen represents the labor movement on numerous boards and commissions, including the Connecticut Employment and Training Commission, Connecticut Innovations Inc., and the Twenty-First Century Action Plan Commission. Mr. Olsen lectures frequently on labor and workplace issues, and has been interviewed and published widely in the media on issues related to jobs, the economy, politics and legislation. He hosts Talkin·Union, a monthly radio program heard live on WATR-1320 AM in Waterbury, CT, and is a frequent contributor to Connecticut Work, a twice-a-month labor program reaching 750,000 Connecticut cable households.


Rostam Pourzal
Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

Since he retired from business in 2001, Rostam Pourzal has worked full-time in Washington, DC as an independent researcher and organizer for human rights.
He holds a graduate degree in cultural anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania, where he focused on modernization and social upheaval. He advocates direct and sustained dialog without pre-conditions between Iran and the United States.

Mr. Pourzal visits Iran regularly and has served on the boards of several Iranian-American organizations. He has been interviewed on dozens of well-known broadcasts, including Pacifica Radio, CNN International, Aljazeera, and MSNBC.
In 2004, he convinced the Fellowship of Reconciliation to send two goodwill delegations (three dozen American citizens) to Iran. The ground-breaking initiative was widely reported on BBC, CNN, and other world media.


Wayne Smith
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee

As the eldest son of 11 children, Wayne Smith learned important life-lessons following the death of his father at the age of 10. By overcoming despair, poverty, and racial prejudice, Wayne became aware of an inner strength and his ability to be responsible and compassionate towards others.

After high school, Wayne joined the U.S. Army Medical Corps, spent 18 months in Vietnam as a combat medic and had the good fortune to work with the Vietnamese people. After the war, he struggled like many veterans and eventually became one of our Nation's leading voices addressing the causes and consequences of war.

In 1998, Wayne returned to Vietnam, with 20 American veterans. Together with 20 Vietnamese former enemy soldiers, they rode bicycles 1,200 miles from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City to promote peace and reconciliation. Wayne is one of the veterans featured in the 1999 Emmy Award winning documentary, "Vietnam: A Long Time Coming".

For more than 30 years, Wayne has been an advocate for human rights and social justice. He has served in a leadership capacity with a number of prominent organizations, including the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, a co-recipient of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize and as president of the Black Patriots Foundation. As executive director of The Justice Project, he successfully lobbied for passage of the Innocence Protection Act, a law that helped change the way the courts and the American people think about the death penalty.

Today, Wayne manages national and international programs with the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee where he has the unique opportunity to defend civil liberties eroded by the Global War on Terror.

He has appeared on numerous radio and television programs including ABC Nightline, NBC News, CBS Evening News, the New York Times and National Public Radio. Wayne was also featured in two books: “American Patriots” by Gail Buckley and “Patriots” by Christian G. Appy.


Dahlia Wasfi
Iraqi-American MD

Iraqi American activist who has spoken out against the war in Iraq. Born in 1971 to a Jewish mother, and an Iraqi father, Wasfi spent her early childhood in Iraq, which was then under Saddam Hussein. In 1977, she returned with her family to the United States. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1997.

Wasfi visited Iraq for 3 months, on her return to the U.S. in March 2006, and based on her experiences, she has spoken out to end the occupation. In 2006, she spoke to a congressional forum on Iraq. “ I speak to you today on behalf of relatives on my mother’s side — Ashkenazi Jews who fled their homeland of Austria during Hitler’s Anschluss. It is for them that we say 'Never again.' I speak to you today on behalf of relatives on my father’s side, who are not living, but dying, under the occupation of this administration’s deadly foray in Iraq. From the lack of security to the lack of basic supplies to the lack of electricity to the lack of potable water to the lack of jobs to the lack of reconstruction to the lack of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they are much worse off now than before we nvaded. 'Never again' should apply to them, too."


Howard Zinn
Eminent Historian

Howard Zinn (born 1922) is best known for his popular historical writings and his activity in the civil rights and peace movements.

He was born on August 24, 1922, in New York City. During World War II, he served from 1943 to 1945 as a second lieutenant in the United States Army Air Force and participated in bombing missions in Europe. He was awarded an Air Medal and several battle stars.

In 1956 he moved to Atlanta, GA, to accept a post as chairman of the department of history and social science at Spelman College, an African-American women's school. During the seven years he taught there, Zinn saw and participated in some of the key events of the civil rights movement. He was shocked by the violence directed at African-Americans and dismayed by the federal government's failure to defend their rights more vigorously. Zinn was critical of President John Kennedy's administration. Though it was regarded as liberal by many Americans, it seemed to Zinn to be weak in response to demands for equality.

Zinn's study of one of the major civil rights organizations, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, was published as SNCC: The New Abolitionists (1964). The book was both an impassioned first-hand description of the civil rights struggle and a cogent historical analysis of the modern movement's links with pre-Civil War abolitionism.

Zinn joined Boston University's Government Department in 1964 and remained a professor of political science there the rest of his career. He became well known in New Left circles for his opposition to United States military involvement in Vietnam. In his book Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal (1967), he made a powerful case for reversing the Lyndon Johnson administration's policy of escalation. Zinn's role in the peace movement was not limited to his scholarly writings. Throughout the mid-1960s he was active in the American Mobilization Committee's national drive to bring an end to the United States intervention. In February 1968, he travelled to North Vietnam with the radical priest, Father Daniel Berrigan, to secure the release of three American bomber pilots shot down on air raids. As he had done earlier with his experiences in the civil rights movement, Zinn wrote articles that offered a first-hand account of his trip to Hanoi.

Zinn's A People's History of the United States (1980), surveyed all of American history from the point of view of the working classes and minority groups. He documented the history of race, sex, and class; the history of civil disobedience; how hopes for a more egalitarian society had been frustrated, and how a small, upper-class elite had retained its hold on power and wealth.
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Former Fed Filan Joins Pepe & Hazard

Hartford, Ct, Oct. 22, 2007 -- James K. Filan, Jr., a former Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, has joined Pepe & Hazard as a partner. He joins the firm's expanding Litigation Practice Group, bringing his extensive civil, criminal and appellate experience to the Firm's white collar criminal defense and complex commercial litigation practice groups.

While at the U.S. Attorney's office, Attorney Filan was the Coordinator for Computer and Telecommunication Crimes and Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property Crimes for the Fairfield County Office of the United States Attorney's Office, where he was involved in numerous national and international computer and Internet-related investigations. Attorney Filan will bring his extensive experience in computer investigations and prosecution to the firm's broad litigation practice.

Attorney Filan also has extensive experience in immigration and appellate law, having been lead counsel for the United States on many cutting-edge, constitutional issues in cases brought before the United States District Court in Connecticut and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York.

An involved member of the professional and public service communities, Attorney Filan, now a resident of Newtown, is counsel to the St. Rose of Lima School Board, chaired the Quinnipiac College School of Law Service to the Community Committee and was a Treasurer and a Commissioner of the Town of Monroe Water Resources Conservation/Inland Wetland Commission. He also is a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the American Immigration Lawyer's Association.

Attorney Filan graduated from the University of Bridgeport School of Law, cum laude, where he was Associate Editor of the University of Bridgeport Law Review, a Connecticut Bar Foundation Scholarship Fellow, an IOLTA Scholar and an honoree of the School's Community Service Award. After graduating from law school, Attorney Filan served as law clerk to the Honorable Sidney S. Landau of the Connecticut Appellate Court and to the late T.F. Gilroy Daly, United States District Judge for the District
of Connecticut.

Prior to law school, Attorney Filan was a commercial construction superintendent and project manager on projects in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Virginia. He holds an undergraduate degree from Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio where he earned a B.A. in Business Administration.

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Barbara Parsons @ UConn Torrington

Litchfield County author and survivor of domestic abuse
speaking at UConn Torrington Campus

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Fiona de Merell, Litchfield County Writers Project
(860) 626- 6852
fiona.demerell@uconn.edu


Torrington, Conn. - Barbara Parsons, author of Reawakening through Nature: a Prison Reflection and Puzzle Pieces, which chart her experiences as the survivor of domestic abuse, including her incarceration for the fatal shooting of her husband, will be a guest speaker at the University of Connecticut's Torrington campus on Thursday, October 25th, 2007 as part of Professor Nan Taylor's Psychology seminar on violence. The event is co-sponsored by the Litchfield County Writers Project.

Parsons, who works as a gardener and lives quietly in Litchfield County, has now contributed Reawakening through Nature: a Prison Reflection to Wally Lamb's newest anthology, I'll Fly Away: Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison. A lifelong sufferer of abuse, Parsons shot and killed her third husband in 1996. She survived ten years in York maximum security prison, the only facility of its kind in Connecticut. During this time she wrote the memoir, Puzzle Pieces which was published in Couldn't Keep it to Myself: Testimonies From Our Imprisoned Sisters, an anthology of pieces written by inmates and edited by Wally Lamb. Puzzle Pieces won the renowned PEN/ Newman's Own First Amendment Award in 2004 after being submitted by Lamb. The award, sponsored by actor Paul Newman and author A.E. Hotchner honors a U.S. resident who has "encouraged the use of the written word as a legitimate form of power".

Wally Lamb says, "[Parsons] has hitched her sorrow, fear, despair and anger to vivid remembered detail and transferred her emotions to the page…. The operative emotion that drives her later pieces is righteous anger." Lamb, who teaches writing workshops at the maximum-security York Correctional Institution, also says, "We are a paradoxical nation, enormously charitable and stubbornly unforgiving. We have called into existence the prisons we wanted. I am less and less convinced they are the prisons we need."

Davyne Verstandig, director of the Litchfield County Writers Project says, "This is the second visit by Barbara Parsons to the UConn Torrington campus. She was here in 2005 for Domestic Violence Awareness Week and her bravery and courage was palpable. Her writing is powerful in its directness and clarity. She moved our entire audience as I am certain she will again. The Litchfield County Writers Project is honored to have her here."

Barbara Parsons will speak at the UConn Torrington campus in the Francis W. Hogan Lecture Hall, M. Adela Eads building, 855 University Drive, Torrington, CT 06790. This event is sponsored by the UConn Psychology Department and The Litchfield County Writers Project. LCWP provides programs that celebrate the work of Litchfield County writers and support the academic aims of the University of Connecticut. The Torrington UConn Co-op carries all the books for LCWP events, available to students and the general public. The Co-op will be selling I'll Fly Away and Couldn't Keep It to Myself at this event.

This event is free and open to the public. For further information please visit lcwp.uconn.edu, call 860-626-6852 or email lcwp@uconn.edu

Do Green Condos Glow In The Dark?

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Don't Pick On JI":

>slated to be built on Simon Ed, near Scantic Rivershed

Isn't that the project also headed by Mayor Cocoa Puff's real-estate savvy wife and her wheelin', dealin' sidekicks, the Fredricks?

Who in today's housing market, has $300K to plunk down on "green" condos in Enfield? Especially "green" condos
built near a former toxic waste site?

East Windsor is also building some luxury apartments less than 2 miles down the road (also near Scantic River). Where will all these new rich tenants/owners be coming from?? Simon Rd in Enfield is going to get a lot busier when all these new housing complexes are completed.


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Don't Pick On JI

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "In Praise Of Red Edgar":

> The JI used to be a good local paper.

> It's clear the reporters know very little about our town.

Ah, give the JI a break. Was at Fermi High game last week and overheard JI staffer asking the Fermi High principal when the players would be returning to "Love Canal" fields? ("Love Canal" reference is re: the Fermi athletic fields constructed on the contaminated high school grounds, which has made their athletic field situation a laughing stock in CCC the last 2 years.)

So don't pick on JI - the staff does know what's going on in Enfield. And they can even make a joke about it. Though many in Enfield can't take one.


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Dan Pope @ WestConn

Reading Oct. 24, 7:30 pm, Reimold Theatre
Western Connecticut State University
Danbury, CT
http://www.wcsu.edu/


Dan Pope is the author of In the Cherry Tree (Picador, October 2003).His stories have appeared recently in McSweeney's (No. 4), Gettysburg Review, Night Train, Witness, Crazyhorse, Iowa Review, and other magazines. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop, where he attended on a Truman Capote Fellowship. He is a winner of the Glenn Schaeffer Award from the International Institute of Modern Letters and a grant in fiction from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts.

Dan Pope's brilliant novel chronicles a childhood summer lived beneath the rumblings of an unhappy marriage. An ethnography of American suburban boyhood circa 1974, In the Cherry Tree takes you back to when you could name every actor on "The Big Valley," wield dialogue from The Poseidon Adventure as a secret code to baffle the uninitiated, sing "The Night Chicago Died" from start to finish verbatim, and pronounce with absolute confidence that Elton John ruled and John Denver sucked. In lucid, deceptively simple prose, Pope explores childhood's ardent faith in things worth knowing, just because. And in the necessity of judgments, the endless listing and rating of athletes, pop stars and movies - creating systems of order and value by which to live, while the Mom and the Dad, as Pope's narrator calls them, battle it out in the next room.

Tender yet unsentimental, raucously funny, In the Cherry Tree evokes not only a time and place, but a kind of imagination that adulthood almost inevitably extinguishes in us all. You may not realize how much you've forgotten about being twelve years old until this novel reminds you. Anyone who was young in the suburbs a quarter century ago will be transported instantly back - for better and for worse - to familiar ground. Thought you'd left 1974 behind forever? Ready or not, here you go.


"In the manner of Alice McDermott's That Night, or Evan Connell's Mrs. Bridge, Dan Pope's small, deft novel turns suburban malaise into both comedy and elegy. It's a gem."
-- Rand Cooper, author of The Last to Go

"Dan Pope's novel doesn't capture the world of twelve-year-old boys in the 1970s so much as it liberates it. Filled with music, cars, obtuse older siblings, parents who are struggling with their own demons, and (increasingly, tentatively) girls, In the Cherry Tree gets every nuance right--the alliances and rivalries, the exuberance and sorrow, but above all the brilliant mix of intelligence and unintelligence that characterizes preteen life."

-- Ben Greenman, author of Superbad

We Protect Far More Than Just Polite Speech

Connecticut Post Commentary

By JAMES H. SMITH
Editor
Connecticut Post Online
www.connpost.com

Article Last Updated:10/19/2007 09:22:52 PM EDT

Last Sunday a group calling itself Poets & Writers for Avery assembled at the Litchfield Inn to raise money for Avery Doninger, the high school kid punished for what she wrote. She is suing the Region 10 School District of Burlington and Harwinton for robbing her of her First Amendment right to free speech.

It's not just poets and writers who should worry about the loss of free speech. All of us should. Avery was punished by school officials for what she wrote — not what she wrote at school, but what she wrote at home. So here is a question — who should discipline a teenager for something she does at home — school officials or parents?

What she wrote wasn't very nice. She called school officials douche bags, which, according to Webster's, is slang for "an unattractive or offensive person."

Avery Doninger was the junior class secretary and a member of the student council. She was angry because she thought school officials were canceling the annual Jamfest — a battle of the bands that she was in charge of organizing. She wrote her comments on her blog at Livejournal.com, a social networking site. Anyone could read her remarks, which also encouraged others to write to the school superintendent "to piss her off more."

Once again, this was on her home computer, not at school, but school officials punished her by not allowing her to run for senior class secretary. (Students wrote her name in and she won the election, but the school administration insisted the student they endorsed should be the secretary).

If Avery wrote her remarks at school and passed them around in the hallways — and if you are into punishing people for what they write — then perhaps there's a case for the school district to act. It seems to me this is a parental matter.

The teen and her mother, Lauren, sued the principal and the school superintendent, asking for a new election in which Avery could run for class secretary. Federal District Court Judge Mark R. Kravitz in New Haven ruled that her punishment did not violate the girl's constitutional rights. The family is appealing to the federal Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York.

Avery, "a poised, intelligent, and articulate senior at Lewis S. Mills High School in Burlington," wrote Judge Kravitz, "is free to express her opinions about the school administration and their decisions in any manner she wishes. However, Avery does not have a First Amendment right to run for a voluntary extracurricular position as a student leader while engaging in uncivil and offensive communications regarding school administrators."

In other words, if she wants to run for office, she can't speak her mind if she uses off-color words. Sounds to me like an infringement on free speech and on the very act of democracy — running for office.

Kravitz did allow that if some other form of discipline (which he did not specify) had been imposed then he might have a concern that her First Amendment rights had been violated.

Kravitz held that teachers "must teach our children to think critically and to object to what they perceive as injustice. But school officials also must inculcate the values of civil discourse and respect for the dignity of every person."

All well and good, but the First Amendment isn't there to protect tame speech. It is there to protect speech that makes us uncomfortable, that we disagree with, or is patently offensive.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled several times that high school students do not enjoy the same rights as adults. The court has permitted students the passive activity of wearing black armbands to protest the Vietnam War, but has allowed school officials to censor on-campus speech they deem vulgar or offensive or otherwise contrary to the schools' mission to "inculcate the habits and manners of civility."

My concern is that schools are losing the opportunity to teach about the importance of the Bill of Rights, free speech included. Adults can use offensive speech, partly because what may offend some is music to the ears of others.

"The sort of robust political debate encouraged by the First Amendment is bound to produce speech that is critical of those who hold public office," wrote Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist in a 1988 case. "At the heart of the First Amendment is the recognition of the fundamental importance of the free flow of ideas and opinions on matters of public interest and concern."

He quoted Justice Felix Frankfurter that "one of the prerogatives of American citizenship is the right to criticize public men and measures (with even) vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks."

So yes, let's teach that civil discourse is a societal good, but also teach that the right to free speech is the foundation of that good.

James H. Smith is the editor of the Connecticut Post. Reach him at 203-330-6325 or by e-mail at jsmith@ctpost.com

Avery Doninger Free Speech Federal Hearing Transcripts

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Regular Programming For Friday, October 19, 2007
11:34 AM

ELECTIONS ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION WORKSHOP ON THE CITIZENS’ ELECTION PROGRAM
Show Length = 1 hr 50 min (Recorded: 10/17/07)
1:27 PM

HOSPITAL OF CENTRAL CONNECTICUT LECTURE ON EXPLORING ANXIETY
Show Length = 1 hr 30 min (Recorded: 10/16/07)
3:00 PM

YALE PEABODY MUSEUM DISCUSSION ON FUTURE OF LIFE ON EARTH
Show Length = 1 hr 3 min (Recorded: 10/17/07)
4:12 PM

REBROADCAST OF SUPREME COURT ORAL ARGUMENT: KLEWIN v. COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WORKS
Show Length = 46 min (Recorded: 9/04/07)
5:00 PM

CT BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION “WHAT’S THE DEAL” ANNUAL ENERGY CONFERENCE MORNING SESSION
Show Length = 1 hr 59 min (Recorded: 10/17/07)
7:02 PM

CAPITOL REPORT
Show Length = 41 min (Recorded: 10/19/07)
7:49 PM

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COMMISSION HEARING: LAUREN DONINGER v. REGION 10 BOARD OF EDUCATION
Show Length = 41 min (Recorded: 10/18/07)
8:33 PM

PANEL DISCUSSION ON THE THREE STRIKES LAW AT QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW
Show Length = 1 hr 55 min (Recorded: 10/15/07)
10:30 PM

BOARD OF EDUCATION & SERVICES FOR THE BLIND ANNUAL AWARDS PROGRAM
Show Length = 1 hr 59 min (Recorded: 10/18/07)
Regular Programming For Saturday, October 20, 2007
12:32 AM

CAPITOL NEWS BRIEFING WITH THE SECRETARY OF THE STATE AND JIM CALHOUN TO LAUNCH VOTING EQUIPMENT AD CAMPAIGN
Show Length = 13 min (Recorded: 10/15/07)
12:49 AM

GOVERNOR’S STATEWIDE HOSPITAL TASK FORCE OCTOBER 16TH MEETING
Show Length = 1 hr 50 min (Recorded: 10/16/07)
2:48 AM

YALE PEABODY MUSEUM DISCUSSION ON FUTURE OF LIFE ON EARTH
Show Length = 1 hr 3 min (Recorded: 10/17/07)
3:54 AM

BOARD OF GOVERNORS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION OCTOBER MEETING
Show Length = 2 hr 3 min (Recorded: 10/17/07)
6:00 AM

CAPITOL REPORT
Show Length = 41 min (Recorded: 10/19/07)
6:50 AM

CT BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION “WHAT’S THE DEAL” ANNUAL ENERGY CONFERENCE
Show Length = 4 hr 38 min (Recorded: 10/17/07)
11:37 AM

CAPITOL NEWS BRIEFING WITH THE SECRETARY OF THE STATE AND JIM CALHOUN TO LAUNCH VOTING EQUIPMENT AD CAMPAIGN
Show Length = 13 min (Recorded: 10/15/07)
12:00 PM

CAPITOL REPORT
Show Length = 41 min (Recorded: 10/19/07)
12:44 PM

YALE PEABODY MUSEUM DISCUSSION ON FUTURE OF LIFE ON EARTH
Show Length = 1 hr 3 min (Recorded: 10/17/07)
1:49 PM

HEALTHFIRST CONNECTICUT AUTHORITY ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Show Length = 1 hr 12 min (Recorded: 10/17/07)
3:04 PM

GOVERNOR’S STATEWIDE HOSPITAL TASK FORCE OCTOBER 16TH MEETING
Show Length = 1 hr 50 min (Recorded: 10/16/07)
4:57 PM

BOARD OF GOVERNORS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION OCTOBER MEETING
Show Length = 2 hr 3 min (Recorded: 10/17/07)
7:02 PM

CAPITOL REPORT
Show Length = 41 min (Recorded: 10/19/07)
7:46 PM

SENATE BIPARTISAN COMMITTEE OF REVIEW OCTOBER 15TH MEETING WITH SENATOR LOUIS DeLUCA
Show Length = 3 hr 43 min (Recorded: 10/15/07)
11:29 PM

CAPITOL NEWS BRIEFING FOLLOWING THE OCT. 15th MEETING OF SENATE'S COMMITTEE OF REVIEW WITH SEN DeLUCA
Show Length = 5 min (Recorded: 10/15/07)
11:36 PM

FOI PROMO
Show Length = 3 min (Recorded: 1/01/00)
11:40 PM

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COMMISSION HEARING: LAUREN DONINGER v. REGION 10 BOARD OF EDUCATION
Show Length = 41 min (Recorded: 10/18/07)
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12:23 AM

CAPITOL NEWS BRIEFING ON QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY'S POLL ON THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES
Show Length = 8 min (Recorded: 10/17/07)
12:34 AM

CAPITOL NEWS BRIEFING WITH THE SECRETARY OF THE STATE AND JIM CALHOUN TO LAUNCH VOTING EQUIPMENT AD CAMPAIGN
Show Length = 13 min (Recorded: 10/15/07)
12:50 AM

PANEL DISCUSSION ON THE THREE STRIKES LAW AT QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW
Show Length = 1 hr 55 min (Recorded: 10/15/07)
2:55 AM

SENTENCING TASK FORCE OFFENSE CLASSIFICATION SUBCOMMITTEE OCTOBER MEETING
Show Length = 1 hr 47 min (Recorded: 10/16/07)
4:45 AM

HEALTHFIRST CONNECTICUT AUTHORITY ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Show Length = 1 hr 12 min (Recorded: 10/17/07)
6:00 AM

CAPITOL REPORT
Show Length = 41 min (Recorded: 10/19/07)
6:43 AM

HOSPITAL OF CENTRAL CONNECTICUT LECTURE ON EXPLORING ANXIETY
Show Length = 1 hr 30 min (Recorded: 10/16/07)
8:16 AM

ELECTIONS ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION WORKSHOP ON THE CITIZENS’ ELECTION PROGRAM
Show Length = 1 hr 50 min (Recorded: 10/17/07)
10:10 AM

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS’ AFFAIRS SUMMIT FOR RETURNING VETERANS
Show Length = 1 hr 50 min (Recorded: 10/12/07)
12:02 PM

CAPITOL REPORT
Show Length = 41 min (Recorded: 10/19/07)
12:46 PM

BOARD OF EDUCATION & SERVICES FOR THE BLIND ANNUAL AWARDS PROGRAM
Show Length = 1 hr 59 min (Recorded: 10/18/07)
2:48 PM

SUPREME COURT ORAL ARGUMENT: NORMAN PELLETIER ET AL. V. SORDONKI/SKANSKA CONSTRUCTION COMPANY ET AL.
Show Length = 1 hr 3 min (Recorded: 10/16/07)
3:51 PM

SUPREME COURT ORAL ARGUMENT: RICHARD ARCHAMBAULT V. KONOVER CORPORATION
Show Length = 56 min (Recorded: 10/16/07)
4:50 PM

YALE PEABODY MUSEUM DISCUSSION ON FUTURE OF LIFE ON EARTH
Show Length = 1 hr 3 min (Recorded: 10/17/07)
5:56 PM

HEALTHFIRST CONNECTICUT AUTHORITY ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Show Length = 1 hr 12 min (Recorded: 10/17/07)
7:10 PM

REBROADCAST OF SUPREME COURT ORAL ARGUMENT: KLEWIN v. COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WORKS
Show Length = 46 min (Recorded: 9/04/07)
7:59 PM

CAPITOL REPORT
Show Length = 41 min (Recorded: 10/19/07)
8:42 PM

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REBROADCAST OF WVIT - TV's 'CT NEWSMAKERS'
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9:40 PM

SENTENCING TASK FORCE OFFENSE CLASSIFICATION SUBCOMMITTEE OCTOBER MEETING
Show Length = 1 hr 47 min (Recorded: 10/16/07)
11:30 PM

PANEL DISCUSSION ON THE THREE STRIKES LAW AT QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW
Show Length = 1 hr 55 min (Recorded: 10/15/07)