News for Norm Pattis

More than a year after Yale graduate student Kevin Jiang was shot dead in New Haven, the case of slaying suspect Qinxuan Pan was continued again Wednesday, according to clerks at the New Haven Judicial District courthouse.
Pan, who has not yet entered a plea, now is scheduled to appear March 3.
His attorney, Norm Pattis, previously asked for more time to review evidence in the matter in December.
Pattis Wednesday evening told the Register that both he and Pan recently had...

Attorneys representing the New Haven police union and the city have submitted arguments for and against vacating a decision upholding the firing of former Officer Jason Santiago, who was found to have used excessive force during a December 2019 arrest, as a court case on the issue continues.
Santiago, dismissed by the Board of Police Commissioners through a 4-2 vote, struck a man, allegedly kicked him in the groin while he was handcuffed on the ground and then pulled the man to his feet...

High-profile New Haven attorney Norm Pattis and another lawyer defending extremist Alex Jones against defamation lawsuits from Sandy Hook families want the Connecticut judge removed from the case for “the appearance of judicial impropriety.”
“The evolution of the case, including a threat made against Judge Bellis by an unknown third-party that the plaintiffs somehow attribute to defendants, and the series of subsequent comments and rulings, would lead a reasonable person...

Qinxuan Pan, accused of the slaying of Yale graduate student Kevin Jiang, now is being represented in the criminal case by attorney Norm Pattis, known for his representation of high-profile defendants including Fotis Dulos and Alex Jones.
During a Tuesday court appearance in the case, Pattis said he had received evidence through the discovery process, including a list of items collected in connection with the matter.
Pattis received permission from Judge Gerald Harmon to share the...

Alex Jones, an extremist who has previously promoted hoaxes on his Texas-based internet broadcast, has asked a Connecticut judge to subpoena Hillary Clinton, claiming she is behind a group of Sandy Hook families suing him for defamation.
Norm Pattis, one of Jones’ attorneys, said Clinton wanted revenge for Jones’ “vitriolic criticism” of her on his Infowars program.
“The defendants in this case believe that this suit was filed six years after the...

Connecticut attorney Norm Pattis is now involved in the Roger Stone case.
According to The National Law Journal, Pattis, of The Pattis & Smith Law Firm, is now representing Mike Cernovich, who last week filed a motion seeking the juror voir dire identification number of the the Roger Stone jury’s forewoman and jury questionnaires in the case.
Over the years, Pattis has represented clients in high-profile cases, including Fotis Dulos, who was charged in the murder of...

Norm Pattis said his client was already “on the edge financially” and a judge’s ruling on Thursday could push Fotis Dulos to the brink.
Judge Gary White ordered Fotis Dulos to be on strict home confinement after he removed items from a memorial for his estranged wife who he is accused of killing.
The ruling will prevent Fotis Dulos from leaving his Farmington home for work. He has been on house arrest since being released this month on $6 million bond on charges of...

A Quinnipiac University law student claimed his First Amendment rights were violated when Facebook removed posts where he named the whistleblower at the heart of the impeachment hearings.
A lawsuit filed in New Haven on Tuesday by Cameron L. Atkinson, a third-year law student, cites two Facebook posts by Atkinson from Monday that were removed from the social media site.
Atkinson said he learned Facebook was allegedly blocking posts mentioning the name of the CIA officer who filed a...

There was an air of exasperated despair in U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal’s approach to Google executives in this week’s Senate hearings. Why can’t you erase Alex Jones from search engines? “You can’t unleash the monster and say it’s too big to control,” Blumenthal said.
Google’s Vice President for Government Affairs and Public Policy, Karan Bhatia, then told the senator the tech giant was doing everything it could to remove all content from...

How do you represent those people?
The question is common enough for criminal defense lawyers. In the past few weeks, I’ve received variants of the question scores of times. You see, I represent Fotis Dulos, a man suspected in the disappearance of his estranged wife, and the mother of his five children, Jennifer Dulos.
As if that weren’t bad enough, I also represent Alex Jones, the owner of Infowars, a man sued for denying, years ago, that that Sandy Hook Elementary...