Editors Note

• Pages: 158
• Publication year: 2021

Connecticut Bar Journal Volume 69.

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EDITORS NOTE

EDITORS NOTE

The editors feel that the following U.S. Department of justice memorandum, from David Margolis, Associate Deputy Attorney General, to all Professional Responsibility Officers, would be of interest to JOURNAL readers.

U.S. Department of Justice

Office of the Deputy Attorney General

Associate Deputy Attorney General Washington, DC 20530

February 17, 1995

MEMORANDUM

TO: All Professional Responsibility Officers

FROM: David Margolis, Chair Professional Responsibility Advisory Board

SUBJECT: Connecticut's Most Famous Nolle Prosequi Case

Attached you will find a copy of an article by Jack Zeldes that appeared in the December 1994 issue of the Connecticut Bar Journal. It deals with a state murder prosecution in 1924 and the decision by State's Attorney Homer S. Cummings to 'nol pros' the case despite what appeared to be overwhelming evidence of guilt of the defendant. Homer Cummings later served as Attorney General of the United States from 1934 to 1939.

The 26-page, one and a half hour statement to the Superior...