Former Gov. John Rowland is seeking to prevent jurors from hearing details of his previous corruption conviction during his upcoming trial on charges that he tried to create secret consultant roles with two congressional campaigns.
Rowland, who was released from prison in 2006 after serving 10 months, said evidence in the new trial should be limited to his resignation, guilty plea and sentence. Prosecutors want to offer evidence that Rowland engaged in corrupt conduct and abused his office by taking bribes to support their theory that one of the congressional campaigns sought to hide that Rowland was paid to work on the campaign, Rowland’s attorneys said.
