Connecticut Law Tribune. Excerpt:
The state's highest court has overturned the conviction of a Bethel man who was sentenced in 2010 to six years behind bars for allegedly molesting an 8-year-old girl.
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Specifically, Maguire claimed the prosecutor acted improperly by repeatedly asserting during her rebuttal closing argument that both Maguire and his defense lawyer at the trial, Norman Pattis, were asking the jury to "condone child abuse," that Maguire's testimony was "coached," and that the defense strategy was a game of "smoke and mirrors."