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December 9, 2019 ¦ Vol. 45, No. 49 ¦ $10.00 The estate of an
Anguillan hotel worker
has sued Darien
resident Scott Hapgood,
who is suspected of
killing the man while
Hapgood and his family
were on vacation.

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Meet the Attorney Who Won 8-Year
Pro Bono Fight to Halt Deportation

By ROBERT STORACE
The case of Wayzaro Walton, who the federal
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has
been trying to deport back to England since
2012, has made statewide and regional news, and
has garnered the support of the state’s top political
leaders.
Leading Walton’s fight, largely out of public view,
has been Hartford-based immigration attorney
Erin O’Neil-Baker.
Walton was released from federal detention in
New Hampshire on Wednesday, but the nearly
eight-year-long battle to keep her in the coun-
try she’s called home since she was 4 years old
continues. The government has tried numerous
times to deport Walton for felony shoplifting and
five misdemeanor convictions, despite a pardon
Attorney Erin O’Neil-Baker

from Connecticut. A gubernatorial-appointed Walton’s longtime lawyer said she made her
board pardoned Walton, 35, but ICE only rec- client a promise to remain on the case, free of
ognizes pardons that come directly from a state charge, until the very end.
governor.
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