Connecticut’s top public defender fights back against allegations of misconduct

Connecticut’s top public defender fought for her career during a Tuesday hearing in which an oversight commission considered whether to discipline or fire her over a series of incidents of alleged misconduct. Chief Public Defender TaShun Bowden-Lewis was placed on paid administrative leave by the state’s Public Defender Services Commission earlier this year following months of disputes with the oversight body and reports she had allegedly instructed one of her subordinates to access email accounts of some of her critics. An independent investigation into the embattled public defender’s conduct found...