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The Superior Court was created after the Constitution of Connecticut was adopted in 1818. The Constitution created three separate branches of government, including a judiciary composed of "... a Supreme Court of Errors, a Superior Court, and such inferior courts as the general assembly shall from time to time ordain and establish.
Alexander v. Yale; American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut; Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission; Blue Laws (Connecticut) Boddie v. Connecticut
He was appointed to the Superior Court by Governor Lowell P. Weicker Jr. in 1991. In his 20 years of service as a Superior Court judge, his assignments included terms in the Civil and Criminal Divisions of the Hartford, New Britain and Litchfield Superior Courts, as well as a four-year term pioneering the Complex Litigation Docket in Waterbury.
An empty jury box at an American courtroom in Pershing County, Nevada. A jury is a sworn body of people (jurors) convened to hear evidence, make findings of fact, and render an impartial verdict officially submitted to them by a court, or to set a penalty or judgment. Most trial juries are "petit juries", and usually consist of twelve people.
On Monday, June 21, 2004, Gov. John G. Rowland announced his resignation amid allegations of graft and a movement to impeach him for accepting gifts. The resignation came several days after the Court ruled on June 18 that the state House Select Committee of Inquiry, which was weighing whether to impeach Rowland, could compel the governor to ...
G. Sarsfield Ford (September 6, 1933 – May 19, 2013) was an American jurist.. Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Ford graduated from the University of Notre Dame.He then received his Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University Law Center and was admitted to the Connecticut Bar.
The Connecticut Appellate Court is the court of first appeals for all cases arising from the Connecticut Superior Courts.Its creation in 1983 required Connecticut's voters and legislature to amend the state's constitution.
Moukawsher was nominated to be a judge of the Connecticut Superior Court in 2013 by Governor Dannel P. Malloy.He assumed office on March 6, 2013, and served for a year in the Court's Criminal Division as the presiding judge of an experimental drug crimes docket in Danielson, Connecticut.