Statewide Grievance Committee v. Whitney

The Superior Court ordered that the defendant, Norman E. Whitney, be suspended from the practice of law for one year after he refused on several occasions to attend a pretrial conference in a criminal matter. In this appeal from the judgment of the trial *831court imposing suspension, the defendant claims that: (1) the practice of scheduling mandatory pretrial conferences in criminal matters is unconstitutional under the state and federal constitutions; (2) General Statutes §§ 53a-172 and 53a-1731 are unconstitutional under the state and federal constitutions; and (3) mandatory criminal pretrial…