NEW HAVEN (AP) — Prosecutors and defense attorneys have rested their cases in the trial of a man charged with murdering a mother and her two daughters during a 2007 home invasion in Connecticut.
Defense attorneys called two witnesses and read a statement from the mother of defendant Steven Hayes.
Earlier Tuesday, a prison officer testified he heard Hayes tell another inmate he killed the woman who died in the attacks. Prosecutors have said Jennifer Hawke-Petit was strangled and her daughters, 17-year-old Hayley and 11-year-old Michaela, died of smoke inhalation.
Prison guard Jeremiah Krob said Hayes recounted that another defendant, Joshua Komisarjevsky, told him he had to kill Hawke-Petit. The officer testified Hayes said he didn’t know if he could, but did kill her when he saw police cruisers outside the house in Cheshire.
Komisarjevsky is awaiting trial.
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Craigslist removes adult services section
HARTFORD (AP) — Craigslist has apparently closed the adult services section of its website, two weeks after 17 state attorneys general demanded it shut down the section.
The section had been replaced Saturday by a black and while “censored” logo.
Craigslist did not immediately return an e-mail seeking comment.
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, one of the AGs who pressed for the change, said in a written statement that he welcomed the change and was trying to verify Craigslist’s official policy going forward.
He said if it was doing the right thing voluntarily in response to the AGs, it could set a good example for others.
In an Aug. 24 letter, the state attorneys general said Craigslist should remove the section because it couldn’t adequately block potentially illegal ads promoting prostitution and child trafficking.
Hoydick wins in special election
Republican Laura Hoydick has won the special election for the 120th Assembly District seat recently vacated by Stratford Mayor John A. Harkins.
Hoydick received 1,949 votes to 1,390 for Democrat Janice Andersen. Hoydick won in all six voting districts with 58 percent of the vote to 42 percent for Andersen.
