The ruling Friday by the Vermont Supreme Court reverses a lower court decision that threw out the sentence for Thomas H. Velde Jr. in the April 2016 death of Leo Branchaud of Tinmouth.
Lawmakers had hoped the temporary carve-outs would help ease Vermont’s acute housing shortage. Developers are using the new exemptions in at least a dozen locations across the state.
On Dec. 5, just after 9 p.m., Vermont State Police responded to a report of a domestic dispute on Ravin Ln in West Rutland. Troopers from the Rutland Barracks arrived at the scene and conducted an ...