via @nhregister Bonnie Foreshaw, author to appear at library in Litchfield

Andy Thibault, a former contributing editor and columnist for Digital First Media in Connecticut, will join a woman he helped free from prison for a book discussion Oct. 1 at 7 p.m. at the Oliver Wolcott Library in Litchfield. The event is free and open to the public; the library asks guests to pre-register under events at its website, http://www.owlibrary.org/.

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Thibault’s second collection of columns — more COOL JUSTICE (http://morecooljustice.com/) — leads off with the story of Bonnie Foreshaw, who served more than 27 years on a charge of premeditated murder of a woman she had never met. Foreshaw was granted a clemency hearing and ultimately freed after Digital First Media published a memo [The-Blue-Note] by former public defender Jon Blue – now a Superior Court judge who presided over the Cheshire murder cases. Blue and others argued the proper charge for the accidental shooting should have been manslaughter.

THE BLUE NOTE

The memo was made public in a Cool Justice column published in May 2013 by the New Haven Register, The Register Citizen of Torrington, The Middletown Press and Litchfield County Times. Foreshaw was granted clemency six months later after the state reversed a decision denying her a hearing.

Foreshaw, a contributor to the acclaimed prison journals “Couldn’t Keep It To Myself” and “I’ll Fly Away,” has begun work on a memoir.

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