{"id":360383,"date":"2010-02-24T17:01:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T22:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.72430"},"modified":"2010-02-24T18:34:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T23:34:35","slug":"judge-chatigny-in-michael-ross-execution-controversy-is-nominated-to-second-circuit-one-of-most-powerful-in-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/360383","title":{"rendered":"Judge Chatigny, In Michael Ross Execution Controversy, Is Nominated To Second Circuit &#8211; One Of Most Powerful In USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judge Robert Chatigny, a friend of U.S. Senator Christopher J. Dodd, has been nominated to be an appellate judge on one of the most powerful courts in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Chatigny was involved in a controversy prior to the 2005 execution of Michael Ross, a convicted serial killer who strangled multiple women in Connecticut. A Simsbury resident, Chatigny presided over Dodd&#8217;s wedding at his waterfront home along the Connecticut River.<\/p>\n<p>If confirmed, Chatigny would serve on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City, which handles appeals of cases from federal courts in Connecticut, New York, and Vermont.<\/p>\n<p>The Hartford Courant&#8217;s veteran court reporter, Edmund Mahony, has the details at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courant.com\/news\/politics\/hc-obama-nominates-chatigny-0224,0,745342.story\">http:\/\/www.courant.com\/news\/politics\/hc-obama-nominates-chatigny-0224,0,745342.story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge Robert Chatigny, a friend of U.S. Senator Christopher J. Dodd, has been nominated to be an appellate judge on one of the most powerful courts in the nation. Chatigny was involved in a controversy prior to the 2005 execution of Michael Ross, a convicted serial killer who strangled multiple women in Connecticut. A Simsbury [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4001,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}