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A Connecticut attorney sentenced to 2½ years in prison in June after being convicted of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a man outside his Litchfield law firm in 2021 is appealing the conviction.
The 134-page page brief laying the groundwork for the appeal argues that Robert Fisher Jr.’s right to put on a defense was undermined and that the judge handling his trial, Eliot D. Prescott, “erroneously” gave the jury instructions to ignore cross-examination testimony from an eyewitness.
The appeal brief, filed on Oct. 29 by Hartford-based attorney Jon Schoenhorn, also argues that Prescott failed to disclose until after the trial that he was seeking to become the state’s next Inspector General — a position he was later appointed.
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