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Article: Court Ends Scruggs' 'Hell'.
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- Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT)
- Article date:
- August 29, 2006
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Byline: Lynne Tuohy
Aug. 29--The state Supreme Court has reversed the felony conviction of Judith Scruggs in the high-profile case in which a jury determined that her cluttered and dirty home contributed to the 2002 suicide of her 12-year-old son, J. Daniel Scruggs. In its unanimous ruling, the high court concluded that a provision of the state's risk-of-injury-to-a-minor law is unconstitutionally vague in that it makes no reference to poor housekeeping being a potentially criminal act. "There were several explanations for Daniel's state of mind and behavior ... including the relentless bullying that he endured at school and his inherently fragile ...
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