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A Eileen Blackwood
and

Pamela Kraynale

are pleased to announce
the formation of their partnership

for the general practice of law

Blackwood and Kraynak
Attorneys at Law

84 Pine Street

P.O. Box 875
Burlington, VT 05402
(802) 863-2517

fax (802) 863-0262

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Sawyer Pleads Guilty
to Murder

On December 2nd Robert Sawyer pled guilty to first degree murder
in the stabbing death of Judith Foumier. Sawyer was accused of stab-
bing Fournier in a Brattleboro parking lot on September 15th after
stalking her for several months. He had previously been arrested on
an assault charge and released on the condition that he stay away
from her. Fournier was with her partner Robyn Burke at the time of
the murder. Sawyer also pled guilty to a charge of assault on Burke.

Judge George Ellison is scheduled to sentence Sawyer on December I

15. The plea agreement means Sawyer would serve a minimum sen-
tence of 40 years to life, with eligibility for parole in about 20 years. Y

Appeal Filed in
Second Parent Adoption Case

A Chittenden county lesbian couple has filed an appeal with the
Vemtont Supreme Court requesting that the court reverse a Probate
Court decision denying the second parent adoption of their two
sons. Probate Court Judge George Belcher denied the petition of the
parents to have the non-biological parent be legally recognized on
the ground that the parents could not be married.

In appealing the decision, the couple asked the Supreme Court to rule
that Vermont's adoption statute does not preclude the non—biological
parent from adopting while keeping intact the rights of the biological
parent. Tlieyalsorequestedthatthecotntdetemiirieon thebasis ofthe
Probate Comt hearing that the adoption is in the best interests of the
children (a fact even Judge Belcher stated) and grant the petition. 

This is the first time a second parent adoption case has been con- |
sidered at the state supreme court level in the U.S.

Julie Frame, David Curtis, and Leslie Dunn of the firm of Hoff, Agel,. l
Curtis, Pacht, and Cassidy of Burlington are acting as attorneys for ,
the couple. A friend of the court brief has also been filed on behalf of J
the Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund, Gay & Lesbian Ad- ~
vocates & Defenders, and the National Center for lesbian Rights by '
attorneys Paula Ettelbrick of Lambda Legal Defense and Susan Mur- t
ray of Langrock, Sperry, & Wool in Middlebury, VT. Susan Munay ‘
was the attorney for Vermont’s only successful second parent adop- ,
tion case, granted by Addison Cormty Judge Chester Ketchum in t
December of 1991. 

A hearing date has not yet been set. V

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