A Superior Court judge has rejected the latest appeal from a death-row inmate who was convicted of killing a police officer in 1992.
Judge Carl Schuman issued a 90-page ruling last week rejecting the petition for a new trial attorneys for Richard Reynolds filed.
Reynolds was convicted of shooting Officer Walter Williams III in the head after Williams stopped him and another man on a Waterbury street just before 4 a.m. on Dec. 18, 1992.
Among other things, Reynolds had claimed that he was given ineffective counsel at trial and that his lawyers should have questioned State's Attorney John Connelly's method of applying the death penalty to serious cases.
Connelly told the Republican-American newspaper that he is pleased with the ruling for the Williams family.
