Jon C. Blue

Jon Blue was born and raised in Springfield, Minnesota, studied medieval history at Carleton College, and holds law degrees from Stanford and Virginia. He has lived in Connecticut since 1973. He became a Superior Court Judge in 1989 and presides over criminal trials in New Haven. He has written several law review articles about constitutional law and Connecticut legal history. While perusing a rare book collection, he found a tattered Nineteenth Century edition of the records of the short-lived New Haven Colony. The records contained amazingly vivid reports of colonial trials, but they were frustratingly incomplete - sexual matters had been omitted for purposes of propriety. That led to a search for the original Seventeenth Century manuscript. The Case of the Piglet's Paternity combines the results of this archival research with the observations of a experienced judge.