Just one day after the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut filed a class action on behalf of the 11.500 prisoners in state custody, students from the Veterans Legal Services Clinic at Yale Law School filed a federal petition for a writ of habeas corpus, demanding the release of an 80-year-old convict.

In a prison with COVID-19 infections, the law school students say client David Terwilliger faces an extrajudicial death sentence because of the virus. The petition for a writ of habeas corpus states Terwilliger’s history of heart attacks, strokes, chronic hypertension, hearing loss, fainting that required hospitalization, labored breathing and degenerative joint disease.

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