Letter from Hartford
[Editor’s Note: I’m not the only criminal defense lawyer who writes a newsletter. Although there aren’t many out there (two or three million at most), some are worth your attention.
Paul Spinella, a Connecticut criminal defense and civil rights lawyer, crafts one like that. He calls his newsletter The Legal Spin. It’s much better than spin.
In the edition below he writes compellingly of the seeming epidemic of police officers who beat and kill the citizens they are sworn to protect, including one of his own clients.
“The names Freddie Gray, Eric Garner, Laquan MacDonald, and Walter Scott,” he says, “should be isolated cases; instead they are a cultural shorthand for police misconduct in America.”
Spinella also offers a terrific remembrance of the lawyer who defended Jack Ruby, who on live television assassinated the man who days before assassinated President John Kennedy.]