HARTFORD — Upholding a lower court ruling, the state Supreme Court Friday threw out the conviction of a prominent Stratford lawyer accused of threatening water company employees who were going to turn off the water to his goat pen. The state’s highest court said Laurence Parnoff’s alleged threat to shoot the water company employees was protected by his right to free speech. “The defendant’s statements were not fighting words, as they were not likely to provoke an immediate and violent reaction from the water company employees, and, thus, there was insufficient evidence to sustain the defendant’s conviction,” the court ruled.
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