Our Team

For several years, Attorney Zito focused her attention on the repeal of Connecticut’s death penalty, testifying before Connecticut’s Judiciary Committee until victory was won in abolition in Connecticut in 2012. Attorney Zito also testified and organized testimony in support of several legislative initiatives, including the passage of new laws involving eyewitness identification reform, habeas reform, electronic recording of interrogations, raise the age legislation incorporating 16- and 17-year-olds into Connecticut’s juvenile justice system, and house arrest for DUI offenders. She also testified and organized testimony in opposition to, among others, investigative subpoena power by the State’s Attorneys, DNA testing for felony arrestees, sentences of life without the possibility of release for persistent dangerous felons, and draconian sex offender registry requirements, which bills were defeated in the Connecticut legislature. Attorney Zito is an appointed Commissioner of the Connecticut Sentencing Commission since 2018, sitting on its Steering Committee. She is the Co-Chair of its Mental Health subcommittee and currently sits on other subcommittees of the Commission, where she successfully worked on several legislative initiatives, including expanding Connecticut's sentence modification statute and pretrial diversionary programs. She is actively working on remedies to divert offenders with serious mental health problems out of the criminal justice system and into treatment, to fix Connecticut's sex offender registry to a risk based system, to abolish mandatory minimum sentences, and to reform Connecticut's money bail system which discriminates against the poor.