State v. Rodriguez-Roman

Dec 22, 2006

OUTCOME:

Largest CORA case ever tried to a jury in the Fairfield Judicial District.

State v. Rodriguez-Roman

Dec 22, 2006

OUTCOME: Trial to verdict

Largest CORA case ever tried to a jury in the Fairfield Judicial District. Iimmigrants between October 2003 and March 18, 2004. She is charged with violating the state Corrupt Organizations Rack ... eteering Act and multiple counts of bribery, bribe receiving, conspiracy to commit bribe receiving and second-degree forgery. Assistant State's Attorney John Malone spent the second day of trial calling each of the illegals to the stand. Each pointed out Rodriguez-Roman in the courtroom as the woman who supplied them with the licenses. The three from Mexico ? Juan Torres, Manuel Aquino and Faustin Agustin ? each related how they crossed the border from Tijuana, avoiding border guards to meet a man they knew only as Coyote, waiting for them on the American side. They said Coyote sped them on their way to Bridgeport for $2,000. Aquino, who works at a local pizza restaurant, said in March 2004 he was playing soccer in Seaside Park when he was approached by a man who offered to get him a driver's license for $2,500. Aquino said he agreed to pay the man, whom he later identified as city barber Advertisement Adblock Hector Portillo, and met him at the McDonald's on North Avenue. After paying Portillo, Aquino said the man handed him a license application form and a printed number. He then escorted him to the DMV office. Within minutes of walking in the door, Aquino said the number he held in his hand was called and he went to the window manned by Rodriguez-Roman, as Portillo had directed. "I got the license in five or 10 minutes," he added. Agustin testified that he paid Portillo $2,800 when they met in March 2004 at the Dunkin' Donuts on Boston Avenue. Under questioning by Malone, he said Rodriguez-Roman never even asked him if he could drive before issuing him a shiny new license. Maria Maya, who now lives in Stamford with her husband and young son, testified she came to the United States in 1999 on a tourist visa from Honduras and never went back. She said she met Portillo in February 2004 at the Bridgeport train station, where she handed him $3,000. Portillo then drove her to the DMV office, gave her a license application form and told her to go to the examiner who smiled at her. Armed with a new driver's license, Maya said she and her husband bought a car. "But the police later took it," she said. The four witnesses denied, under cross-examination by defense lawyer Robert Serafinowicz, that they made any deals with the state in exchange for their testimony. They have not been charged with a crime and each said they received no promise they will not be deported. Portillo was later arrested for allegedly acting as middleman between the illegals and Rodriguez-Roman. He is to be called to testify by Malone next week. The trial, before Judge Lawrence Hauser, is to continue this morning. 'Middleman' testifies in license scam trial DANIEL TEPFER [email protected] Article Launched: 12/19/2006 02:58:58 PM EST BRIDGEPORT ? A city barber admitted Monday that he acted as a middleman in a scheme to sell driver's licenses to illegal aliens. Testifying through an interpreter, Hector Portillo told a Superior Court jury that he collected between $2,500 and $3,000 from each illegal alien and turned the money over to former DMV examiner Jannette Rodriguez-Roman. In return, he said, Rodriguez-Roman gave him a

Cole v. Commissioner of Corrections

Aug 08, 2006

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Dull v. Commissioner of Correction

Aug 01, 2006

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Dixon v. Bromson and Reimer

May 09, 2006

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Charette v. Hartford Accident and Life Co.

Mar 14, 2006

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State v. Frank Czumalowski

Feb 02, 2006

OUTCOME: plea bargain, 2 and 1/2 years

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Scott. v. Scott

Aug 23, 2005

OUTCOME: Reversed and remanded.

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State v. Merritt

Jun 07, 2005

OUTCOME:

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Kobus v. Lawrence Memorial Hospital

May 18, 2005

OUTCOME: Judgement for the Plaintiff after trial by jury.

Brian Kobus made his living as a scallop fisherman and would be paid when he and his shipmates returned to shore. The fact that Mr. Kobus had in possession a large amount of cash, and this fact alone, ... led police officials to just assume he must be a drug dealer. Upon searching his person and finding no evidence of any substance that could even be remotely associated with or mistaken for an illicit substances these same police officials decided that he must have swallowed drugs. They arrested and transported Mr. Kobus to Lawrence Memorial Hospital where X-rays confirmed that Mr. Kobus did not swallow anything that could be confused with illegal drugs. Hospital officials made the decision that rather than releasing Mr. Kobus they would forcibly medicate him and induce vomiting just to make sure they were not mistaken about what the evidence clearly showed. Upon enduring what was an extremely traumatic event Mr. Kobus elected to pursue a claim against Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Showing an arrogance which his record at trial and ability as a lawyer did not justify defense counsel refused to even discuss settlement and the case proceeded to trial. Rob Serafinowicz, in his first trial before a jury secured a judgment for the plaintiff vindicating the rights of a young man who had done nothing wrong.