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Migrant champion of LGBTQ rights facing removal proceedings
Cruz Alberto Sanchez-Perez, known as Beto, in a photo used in a Migrant Justice call to action. A member of Migrant Justice and an LGBTQ leader in Vermont’s migrant community is scheduled to appear in...
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Bill addresses sentencing options for repeat felony offenders
Sen. Dick Sears speaks during a meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee meeting on Jan. 11. Photo by Colin Meyn/VTDigger A Vermont legislative panel is exploring changes to how certain repeat...
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Bill seeks to allow out-of-state domestic violence convictions to enhance...
Legislative counsel Erik FitzPatrick, right, briefs the House Judiciary Committee on a bill pertaining to second degree aggravated domestic assault at the Statehouse on Wednesday. Photo by Glenn...
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Apparent suicide at Springfield prison part of ‘copycat’ series of incidents
Southern State Correctional Facility in Springfield, Vt. Photo by Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDigger This story was updated at 8:03 p.m. Thursday. A Vermont inmate recently sentenced to more than two decades in...
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Springfield corrections officer arrested on sex charges involving inmate
Southern State Correctional Facility in Springfield. File photo by Phoebe Sheehan/VTDigger A corrections officer at the Springfield prison has been arrested for sex crimes involving an inmate at the...
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Lack of charges in Kiah Morris case sparks questions
Rutland Area NAACP founder Tabitha Pohl-Moore introduces Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan at a program at the Rutland Free Library. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger The question is being asked...
View ArticleSCOV Law Blog: A business deal gone awry
Editor’s note: This piece from the SCOV Law Blog is by Nicole Killoran. Foti Fuels, Inc. v. Kurrle Corp., 2013 VT 111RELATED STORIESSCOV Law Blog: Calculating assets in a divorceSCOV Law Blog: A motion...
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Police Academy leader defends drill that injured some recruits
Rick Gauthier, executive director of the Vermont Criminal Justice Training Council, testifies before the Senate Government Operations Committee on Wednesday. Photo by Mark Johnson/VTDigger The head of...
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Orleans County newspaper prevails as high court upholds ‘anti-SLAPP’ law
Vermont Supreme Court Building Photo: Roger Crowley/VTDigger The Vermont Supreme Court has sided with a Northeast Kingdom newspaper, agreeing the recovery of its costs in defending itself against a...
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Inside the prison holding Vermont inmates 1,366 miles from home
Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility, run by CoreCivic. Photo by Alan Keays/VTDigger TUTWILER, Mississippi — Welcome to M block — the prison unit in Mississippi housing Vermont’s 234 out-of-state...
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Burlington Tech teacher assault charge dropped
David Scibek with his lawyer, Ernest Allen, during an assault trial on Wednesday at Vermont Superior Court in Burlington. Photo by Nicole Higgins DeSmet/Burlington Free Press Prosecutors dropped an...
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Judge rules state can take permanent control of elderly care facilities
Andrew White, the owner of East Lake Capital Management, appears for a trial over the state’s motion to take over elderly care facilities in December 2018. Photo by Kit Norton/VTDigger A judge has...
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Burlington man gets 7½ years for drugs, firearms; human trafficking count...
The U.S. District Court and post office building on West Street in Rutland. Photo by Andrew Kutches/VTDigger RUTLAND – A Burlington man was sentenced Monday to more than seven years in prison on drug...
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Former Rice teacher avoids prison with plea in ‘upskirting’ case
Former Rice Memorial High School teacher Brian Lynam appears Tuesday in Vermont Superior Court in Burlington. Pool photo by Ryan Mercer/Burlington Free Press BURLINGTON — Former Rice Memorial High...
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Congolese asylum seeker arrested on Vermont’s border fears deportation
Bienfait, a citizen of Democratic Republic of Congo, with a document he received from Canadian border officials when he was turned away at the border under the Safe Third Country Agreement. Photo by...
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Lawmakers balk at state police plan to shift body camera funds to guns
Col. Matthew Birmingham is the director of the Vermont State Police. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger The Vermont State Police would rather spend more than $560,000 allocated for officer body...
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New Woodside facility carries $23.3M price tag, but no federal program funds
Rep. Alice Emmons, D-Springfield, chair of the House Corrections and Institutions Committee, listens to a discussion of the state of the Woodside Juvenile Rehabilitation Center at the Statehouse in...
View Article88-year-old man dies in train accident
An 88-year-old man who was clearing snow with a tractor near railroad tracks in Fairlee was struck by a train and killed on Wednesday afternoon. Lloyd Raymond was apparently clearing a private driveway...
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Bill banning sexual exploitation by law enforcement sails through House
Rep. Selene Colburn, P-Burlington, right, is congratulated by Rep. Robin Chesnut-Tangerman, P-Middletown Springs, after a bill that she sponsored to prohibit sexual acts between law enforcement and...
View ArticleSCOV Law: Defendant claims Miranda warning came too late
Editor’s note: This piece from the SCOV Law Blog is by Elizabeth Kruska. State v. Kolts, 2018 VT 131 OK, friends, let’s talk about the so-called “Miranda warning.” I often tell people it’s the best...
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