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Connecticut Red of Face: Delaying Admission of Wrong Decision
CONNECTICUT NEWS
Rick Green
Porn Case: Ducking For Cover
May 18, 2007
Hartford Courant
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hc-rgreen0518.artmay18,0,6726152.column?track=rss>
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The state of Connecticut spent two years investigating before it won a
speedy conviction of Julie Amero - the infamous Norwich porn teacher -
this January.
But it was never as tidy as the Norwich Public Schools, the Norwich
police, the state of Connecticut and the Norwich Bulletin newspaper made
it seem.
In truth, Amero, a clumsy computer novice, was the victim of malicious
software that took over the PC in the classroom where she was substituting
on Oct. 19, 2004. Since Amero's arrest, the state has refused to even
consider this possibility.
Then, a few weeks ago, as Amero faced sentencing, Assistant State's
Attorney David J. Smith filed a startling motion in Superior Court:
"The state has not completed a full examination of all the issues which
may affect its position at the sentence hearing."
Translation: We were wrong. We are trying to figure a CYA way out of this
mess.
They still are. Amero's sentencing Thursday was delayed again until June 6
- the fourth postponement since March. She's still convicted of four
counts of risk of injury to a minor, facing a potential 40 years in jail.
"There were issues raised by the defense subsequent to the trial," State's
Attorney Michael Regan said Thursday.
Back in January, there was no uncertainty. Amero was a bumbling
porn-surfer guilty of four counts of risk of injury to a minor. Smith even
objected to evidence that a key witness wanted to present that would have
shown that Amero was a victim of "spyware" and pornographic "pop-up" ads
bombarding the computer.
"The evidence is very strong, very clear-cut, that the defendant was the
only person that had access to that computer," Smith said in his closing
argument. The pop-ups argument, he told judge and jury, was ridiculous.
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High-profile attorney staying in background
Norwich Bulletin
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article?AID=/20070517/NEWS01/705170392>
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Since news of his participation in the Julie Amero case, attorney William
F. Dow III has declined any comment, preferring instead to work behind the
scenes.
But Dow's work in Connecticut has put him in the spotlight before.
A lawyer with the firm Jacobs, Grudberg, Belt, Dow & Katz of New Haven,
Dow is a 1963 Yale University graduate who earned a law degree from the
University of Pennsylvania Law school in 1968, according to his law firm's
Web site.
For four years, he was a public defender with the District of Columbia,
and he was assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia from 1974
to 1976.
In 2006, Connecticut magazine named him one of the top three lawyers in
the state.
Dow, 65, who has tackled several high-profile cases in the past,
represented former Gov. John G. Rowland in a corruption scandal during
impeachment and criminal proceedings. In 2005, Rowland was sentenced to a
year in prison and four months house arrest.
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