Robert Serafinowicz outside Derby court in 2010.
DERBY — A lawyer can’t practice for a year after a judge suspended his license for slapping another lawyer in the face outside the Derby court house on Elizabeth Street, The Connecticut Post reported.
The suspended lawyer, Robert Serafinowicz, is best known in the lower Valley for successfully defending former Ansonia Police Department Officer Mustafa Salahuddin against a sixth-degree larceny charge in 2010. Salahuddin had been accused of stealing a garden hose from the department.
After the state lost the case, Serafinowicz sent the City of Ansonia a bill for $63,000 to pay for Salahuddin’s legal expenses. The Aldermen voted to pay the bill in May 2010.
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