Attorney O's Midnight Musings: Connecticut Law » Criminal Law http://ireneolszewski.com/ctlawblog Law Offices of Irene C. Olszewski, LLC Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:17:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Virginia Man Charged with Indecent Exposure for Being Naked in His Own Home http://ireneolszewski.com/ctlawblog/2009/10/21/virginia-man-charged-with-indecent-exposure-for-being-naked-in-his-own-home/ http://ireneolszewski.com/ctlawblog/2009/10/21/virginia-man-charged-with-indecent-exposure-for-being-naked-in-his-own-home/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:18:43 +0000 Irene C. Olszewski, Esq. http://ireneolszewski.com/ctlawblog/?p=390 Eric Williams awoke at 5:30 a.m. yesterday and went to make coffee in his kitchen. He was home alone, it was dark outside … and Williams just happened to be naked. A woman and her 7-year-old child cut through his front yard from a nearby bath and spied him (and his nakedness) through his front window. Shortly after, the 29-year-old man was arrested for indecent exposure. Police believe he wanted people to see him naked. If convicted, Williams could face a year in jail and a $2,000.00 fine. He plans to fight the charge.

[Source: AOL News]

]]> http://ireneolszewski.com/ctlawblog/2009/10/21/virginia-man-charged-with-indecent-exposure-for-being-naked-in-his-own-home/feed/ 0 Cudos to the Connecticut Innocence Project http://ireneolszewski.com/ctlawblog/2009/08/05/cudos-to-the-connecticut-innocence-project/ http://ireneolszewski.com/ctlawblog/2009/08/05/cudos-to-the-connecticut-innocence-project/#comments Thu, 06 Aug 2009 03:48:07 +0000 Irene C. Olszewski, Esq. http://ireneolszewski.com/ctlawblog/?p=160 The Connecticut Innocence Project has done it again. Today, it was announced that Mark Ireland, who was sentenced to 50 years in prison for a 1986 rape and murder that DNA evidence now shows he could not have committed, was freed. Although Judge Richard Damiani granted him a new trial, Prosecutors are expected to drop the charges. Ireland was convicted in 1989.

Since 2006, the Connecticut Innocence Project has successfully helped to free two men after they were imprisoned for crimes they did not commit. Miguel Roman was convicted of murdering his 17-year-old pregnant ex-girlfriend, based on circumstantial evidence and testimony from a jailhouse informant. Roman was interrogated mostly in English, a language he didn’t speak. His trial proceeded in English. Despite Roman’s continuous claims of innocence, he was convicted in 1990.

James Calvin Tillman was convicted in 1989 of kidnapping, beating, robbing and raping a 26-year-old woman. DNA testing was performed in 1990 on evidence collected during the investigation but DNA testing at the time was not advanced enough to get a conclusive result.

The Connecticut Innocence Project is a division of Public Defender Services for the State of Connecticut.

UPDATE:
On Wednesday, August 19, 2009, Ireland appeared in New Haven Superior Court. Judge Richard Damiani dismissed the charges against him. New Haven State’s Attorney Michael Dearington agreed with the dismissal of the charges against Ireland and said there was no chance he would be recharged.

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