ACLU, NEFAC call for release of body camera footage in Winooski shooting
Civil rights groups are urging Vermont law enforcement to release body camera footage related to a fatal shooting of an unarmed man in downtown Winooski Friday. In a statement Tuesday, the New England...
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Lawyer fights to keep Fell co-defendant’s files secret
The U.S. District Court and post office building on West Street in Rutland. Photo by Andrew Kutches/VTDigger RUTLAND — A lawyer for the deceased former co-defendant in the trial of Donald Fell is...
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Uncertainty, concerns follow ruling in Brattleboro Retreat case
Vermont Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul Reiber was one of the dissenters. File photo by Erin Mansfield/VTDiggerBRATTLEBORO – After more than two years of legal battles and two rulings from a bitterly...
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Federal judge in Miami approves Stenger settlement with SEC over EB-5 fraud...
Bill Stenger thumbs through architectural renderings of pending developments at a press roundtable in September 2013. File photo by Hilary Niles/VTDigger A federal judge has approved the settlement of...
View ArticleReport links domestic violence to 38 percent of slayings in 2015
Domestic violence was a factor in more than a third of all homicides in Vermont in 2015, according to a report released this week. Six of the 16 homicides in Vermont in 2015 were related to domestic...
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SCOV Law Blog: When legal worlds collide
Editor’s note: This piece from the SCOV Law Blog is by Elizabeth Kruska. Groves v. Green, 2016 VT 106 Creative Commons photo by walknboston via Flickr This is actually a very interesting legal issue....
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Digger Dialogue: Hope on heroin front lines
Department of Health Deputy Commissioner Barbara Cimaglio (left) and Gov. Peter Shumlin at a press conference Tuesday. Photo by Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDigger The first methadone clinic in Vermont opened in...
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Chinese investors drop suit against Jay Peak developers and state of Vermont
The Burke Hotel. VTDigger file photoThe attorneys for two Chinese citizens who claimed they were defrauded when they invested in the EB-5 funded Q Burke Resort project in the the Northeast Kingdom have...
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Vermont Supreme Court justice to retire
Associate Justice John Dooley of the Vermont Supreme Court.One of Vermont’s longest sitting Supreme Court justices will retire next year, 30 years after he first joined the bench. John Dooley was...
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Dozens rally in Winooski one week after fatal police shooting
Rob Zeno, right. Photo by Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDiggerOne week after a police officer shot and killed a man in downtown Winooski, several dozen people gathered to protest police violence. Vermont State...
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Digger Dialogue: Hope on the heroin horizon
Department of Health Deputy Commissioner Barbara Cimaglio (left) and Gov. Peter Shumlin. Photo by Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDigger The first methadone clinic in Vermont opened in Burlington in 1991 amid great...
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Medical examiner recants some testimony at alleged killer’s trial
RUTLAND — The chief medical examiner who performed the autopsy on Teresca King, a North Clarendon woman slain in November 2000, said part of his testimony at the trial of her alleged killer in 2005 was...
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Judge approves protection of $2M in contractor claims for AnC Bio Vermont
The Jay Peak Biomedical Research Park, planned for the former Bogner plant in Newport. Photo by Hilary Niles/VTDiggerA federal judge has agreed to a request aimed to help protect $2 million in claims...
View ArticlePolice: Man whose body was found may have overdosed
SOUTH BURLINGTON — Police say they believe they’ve identified a man who was found dead Monday afternoon in the area of Patchen and Arbor roads. The body was discovered in a wooded area near the road by...
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Shumlin: High court nomination won’t wait for new governor
Gov. Peter Shumlin isn’t running for re-election. File photo by Mike Faher/VTDigger Gov. Peter Shumlin plans to nominate a replacement for retiring Vermont Supreme Court Justice John Dooley before...
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Prosecutor honored for heroism in Barre shooting
A Vermont prosecutor is among 25 people honored for extraordinary acts of heroism by the Pittsburgh-based Carnegie Hero Fund Commission. Washington County State’s Attorney Scott Williams was awarded a...
View ArticleShots fired in Burlington’s Old North End, but no one injured
BURLINGTON — Gunshots were fired from a vehicle Wednesday evening into 31 Hyde St., a multifamily home in the Old North End, according to police. No one was injured, but Police Chief Brandon del Pozo...
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Gathering explores keys to child abuse prevention
Gov. Peter Shumlin speaks Thursday at an event focusing on child abuse prevention. Photo by Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDiggerGov. Peter Shumlin identified opiate addiction as the greatest challenge to the...
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Man rescued from Atlantic Ocean returns to Vermont home
Nathan Carman, who survived eight days out at sea, talks to an ABC reporter about the experience outside of the Holiday Inn Express in Brattleboro on Wednesday. Photo by Kristopher Radder/Brattleboro...
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SCOV: Determing a factual basis for a plea
Editor’s note: This piece from the SCOV Law Blog is by Andrew Delaney. In re Manning, 2016 VT 53 Creative Commons photo by walknboston via Flickr A plea colloquy has to include a factual basis for the...
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