UVM police cited five students for arson in a residence hall. Now the state’s attorney won’t take the cases.

A public defender who almost won the job as district attorney for Queens told an audience at Vermont Law School that she wants to dismantle our criminal justice system.

Jennifer Harlow, a Johnson State College graduate who served as a cop in the Newport Police Department has been named sheriff for Orleans County by Gov. Phil Scott. Orleans County now has women serving as both sheriff and state’s attorney (Jennifer Barrett).

A Burlington man who killed his wife with a meat cleaver and had murder charges dismissed by the State's Attorney for reasons of insanity has been re-charged by Attorney General TJ Donovan. What should VT's criminal justice system do with insane killers?

To remedy the problem created by prosecutors (like Chittenden County prosecutor Sarah George) dismissing charges against three allegedly insane killers, the Legislature may consider a bill to hold future likely ‘not guilty by reason of insanity’ killers for at least three years, a legislative panel said Friday.

The alleged carjacking that terrorized a Warren woman August 30 took place at the same time as when Washington County law enforcement were investigating the reported entry of a man with a long gun into a state office building. Also, the victim is the aunt of one of the five teens killed in a 2016 collision with a vehicle driven by Steven Bourgoin. As reported by Vermont State House Headliners, the release the suspect without bail resulted in a public outcry and a responding press release by Washington County State's Attorney Rory Thibault. 

VT Attorney General TJ Donovan has refiled murder charges against a Burlington man whose insanity plea had led  Chittenden County Sarah George to drop the original murder charge. 

Washington County's State's Attorney Rory Thibault published a statement last week saying he had to release without bail the man who allegedly store a car and terrorized its owner, a Warren woman. He was following a 2018 law sponsored by Warren legislator and House Judiciary Chair Maxine Grad. Could get awkward.....