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Judge rejects state’s motion to dismiss high-capacity magazine ban case
Judge Mary Miles Teachout listens to arguments regarding a complaint challenging the state’s high-capacity gun magazine ban. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger Judge Mary Miles Teachout says attorneys...
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Supreme Court hears civil suit in 2016 day care death of 3-year-old
This story by Tommy Gardner was published by the Waterbury Record on March 21. The Vermont Supreme Court is being asked to decide whether the owners of a 41-acre property in Waterbury should be held...
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Panelists raise issues with medical care, complaint process at women’s prison
Inside Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility. Photo by Cory Dawson/VTDigger Amanda Sorrell has done “a lot of time” in prison over the last 15 years. She’s been incarcerated at four different...
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Officer in drug search: ‘The audio recording does not pick it up, but I heard...
It’s a question of what you can see and hear on videotape, and perhaps what you can’t. Body cam footage from the investigating officer in a drug case doesn’t appear to reveal him obtaining consent to...
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Judge rules Vermont’s lawsuit against Purdue Pharma can proceed
Vermont Attorney General TJ Donovan announces the state’s lawsuit against Purdue Pharma in September outside the Chittenden County Superior Court. Photo by Alan J. Keays/VTDigger Vermont’s lawsuit...
View ArticleSCOV Law Blog: Grounds for calling in drug-sniffing dog challenged
Editor’s note: This piece from the SCOV Law Blog is by Elizabeth Kruska. State v. Dubaniewicz 2019 VT 13 I like cake. I’m one of those people who just likes cake. My wedding cake was a wonderful,...
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Barre couple held after allegations of child sex abuse
Editor’s note: This story contains graphic descriptions of sexual acts against children. BARRE – A Barre couple accused of sexually assaulting children have been held without bail in what Washington...
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Police seek suspect in Burlington shooting
Alfred L. Wisher. Police photoBurlington police are seeking a man suspected of shooting a 28-year-old on Clarke Street Sunday morning. Police responded to reports of a man shot in the head shortly...
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Protesters call for release of records at women’s prison
MacKenzie Murdoch of Burlington attends a protest to demand more accountability and transparency from the Department of Corrections concerning the inmates at the Chittenden Regional Correctional...
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Ex-guard admits to smuggling ‘bupe’ into Newport prison
This photo was attached to the affidavit that accompanied the prison search warrant. BURLINGTON — A former corrections officer has pleaded guilty to working with an inmate housed at the Newport prison...
View ArticleLawsuit alleges excessive force by Bristol officer
A Bristol man has filed a federal lawsuit against the Addison County town and its police department, alleging that when he went to check on an alarm going off late at night, a responding officer put a...
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Vermont AG files lawsuit against opioid distributors
Attorney General T.J. Donovan testifies at the Statehouse earlier this month. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Attorney General TJ Donovan has filed a lawsuit against two pharmaceutical distributors...
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Teen criticizes Burlington police for handling of run-in with U.S. agents
Phin Brown, a 16-year-old senior at Burlington High School. Facebook photo A Burlington teenager who says he was aggressively frisked by a U.S. Secret Service agent on St. Paul Street is disappointed...
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Joint Assembly votes to retain all judges, including Hoar
Sen. Alice Nitka, D-Windsor, of the Joint Committee on Judicial Retention reports the committee’s findings on Judge Samuel Hoar during a Joint Assembly held to vote on the retention of Superior Court...
View ArticleSCOV Law: State denies an ‘indemnification obligation’ in civil suit
Editor’s note: This piece from the SCOV Law Blog is by Amy Davis. Heffernan v. State 2018 VT 47 Katherine Heffernan was an inmate at the Chittenden County Correctional Facility in 2013, during which...
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VTDigger sues for records related to dismissed prison superintendent
Southern State Correctional Facility. File photo by Phoebe Sheehan/VTDiggerVTDigger is suing the Vermont Department of Corrections over access to complaints filed against Edward Adams, the former...
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Sawyer ruled ‘youthful offender’; heading to out-of-state treatment facility
Jack Sawyer, of Poultney, sits in Rutland criminal court during his bail review hearing Wednesday morning April 25, 2018. To his right is defense attorney Marshall Pahl. Pool photo by Robert...
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Judge tosses proposed class-action EB-5 suit against People’s Bank, for now
Jay Peak Resort. VTDigger photo BURLINGTON — A federal judge has thrown out a proposed class-action lawsuit brought by a group of EB-5 investors who claimed that People’s United Bank “aided and...
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Welch hears advocates’ concerns about violence against women
Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt. Photo by Alexandre Silberman/VTDigger BURLINGTON — With the Violence Against Women Act up for reauthorization this session, Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, held a roundtable Friday...
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Drug house closure sparks new challenges
A dumpster filled with the remnants of a former drug house sits outside 33 Oak St. in Brattleboro. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger BRATTLEBORO — First came the local cruisers, then the state police...
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