A Steady Habit of Crime

In the third episode of A Steady Habit of Crime, Chris and Krystle tell the story of Frank Palko and explain the legal concepts of double jeopardy and incorporation. 

Frank Palko shot and killed a police officer in Bridgeport, Connecticut in 1935. He went to trial, was convicted of Second Degree Murder and sentenced to life in prison. Then the State appealed, won and prosecuted Frank again. He was convicted of First Degree Murder and sentenced to death. How was the State able to do that? What did the Supreme Court have to say about it? Frank Palko's judicial journey wound through two trials and three appeals, from the land of steady habits to the highest court in the land.

Joseph "Mad Dog" Taborsky and Arthur "Meatball" Culombe terrorized Connecticut with a wave of robberies and murders in 1956 and 1957. Taborsky had previously been convicted of a murder in 1951 and was sentenced to death but had his conviction reversed by Connecticut's Supreme Court of Errors. Following the series of murders with Culombe, he was sentenced to death yet again and in 1960, became the last person executed in the electric hair in Connecticut (the next and last person executed in Connecticut was Michael Bruce Ross, by lethal injection in 2005)., 

Join Chris and Krystle for their first episode of Steady Habits as they take you from the streets of Hartford to the Uited States Supreme Court with robberies, reversals and murders in between. 

Join Chris and Krystle for their first episode of Steady Habits as they take you from the streets of Hartford to the United States Supreme Court with robberies, reversals and murders in between.