The author of landmark Connecticut Supreme Court rulings that legalized same-sex marriage and abolished the state's death penalty is stepping down after 27 years on the high court.
Justice Richard Palmer reached the state's mandatory retirement age of 70 for judges late last month, but will continue to work on cases he heard before then.
Palmer wrote some of the court's most consequential opinions in a generation.
He was the author for narrow 4-3 majorities in landmark cases that legalized same-sex marriage in 2008, abolished the death penalty in 2015 and overturned Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel's murder conviction in 2018.
