Alex Wood

1 week ago | ctinsider.com | Alex Wood

NEW LONDON - A man originally accused of trying to hire a hitman to kill a 29-year-old woman, her two daughters and her boyfriend was expected to be sentenced Tuesday to seven years in prison after accepting a plea deal in March for reduced charges. Joshua Paul Peikert, 32, was convicted in the plea deal of conspiracy to commit first-degree assault under a provision of the law dealing with extremely reckless conduct, according to the records.

2 weeks ago | ctinsider.com | Alex Wood

NEW HAVEN - A jury on Friday found Ronald Little guilty of murdering a man in a shootout in the parking lot of a New Haven shopping plaza in January 2023, a court clerk said. Little, 47, of Sheffield Avenue in New Haven, testified during the trial in state Superior Court in New Haven that he fired first in the shootout with Michael Wint, 33, on Jan. 21, 2023. Little was critically injured by Wint's return fire, police have said.

2 weeks ago | ctinsider.com | Alex Wood

MIDDLETOWN - A man accused last year of conspiring in the violent kidnapping and robbery of a man brought against his will from Port Chester, N.Y., to Clinton received a sentence without immediate prison time this week after a conviction on reduced charges in March, court records show.

2 weeks ago | ctinsider.com | Alex Wood

HARTFORD - The state Supreme Court has upheld a man's sexual assault conviction despite what it concluded were improper comments by the Windham state's attorney in her final argument, including a statement that sexual assault defendants tend to portray their accusers as "nuts and sluts." The 5-1 decision, published in Tuesday's Connecticut Law Journal, upheld Casey Liem Sullivan's convictions for third-degree sexual assault, attempted third-degree sexual assault, fourth-degree sexual assault...

2 weeks ago | ctinsider.com | Alex Wood

NEW HAVEN - As Ronald Little walked up to the car Michael Wint was sitting in, shot him, then walked back to his car, surveillance videos show that his actions were "as casual as putting a letter in the mail," prosecutor Charles Johnson told the jury in Little's murder trial Thursday. "He thought he was the only one with a gun, but he wasn't," the prosecutor added later in his closing argument in the trial in state Superior Court in New Haven.