Christine Dempsey of The Hartford Courant reports as follows:
"WATERBURY — A former judicial marshal who already faces child pornography and prostitution charges has now been accused of human trafficking, the state police said.
Michael Connelly, 53, of Sharon Road in Waterbury turned himself in about 6:15 a.m. Thursday at the Troop A barracks in Southbury on charges of trafficking in persons. He also was charged with three counts each of impersonating a police officer and coercion.
Connelly's lawyer, Leonard Connelly's lawyer, Leonard Crone, came out Crone, came out swinging during Connelly's arraignment Thursday afternoon In Waterbury Superior Court, calling the prosecution of Connelly a "sham," "weak" and a "vendetta played out" by state police and the chief state's attorney's office.
Crone said those agencies "had problems" with his brother, former Waterbury state's attorney John Connelly, and now law enforcement officials are "taking it out on him."
For more information on this important matter, please click on the links below:
Fourth arrest for human trafficking:
http://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-waterbury-connelly-judicial-marshal-arrest-0508-20150507-story.html
15 year history of causing trouble:
http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-michael-connelly-judicial-marshal-work-problems-20150208-story.html#page=1
Really great example of their own (the Judiciary's) incapacity to oversee their own employees. Or execute due diligence and back-ground checks. On a parallel basis, calls into question their ability to do same with the GAL's, Special Masters, and even (gasp) Court Clerks also employed in "the system". All answering, by law, to Superior Court Judges for starters.. So much for a self-watch system of foxes-watching-over-hen-houses. From, apparently, the LEAST PAID grunt in the Judiciary...right on up to the TOP (Supreme Court Chief Justice herself...an erstwhile CT Lawyer).
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