From Courant.com:

In an extraordinary and at times uncomfortable appearance on a Superior Court witness stand, Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz acknowledged Wednesday that in six of the years between 1997 and 2008 she signed state professional or tax documents certifying that she “did not work … as an attorney” or did not “engage in the practice of law.”

The forms were introduced as evidence by an attorney for the state Republican Party, Eliot Gersten, in an effort to undercut Bysiewicz’s claim in a lawsuit that she has enough legal experience to make her eligible to run for state attorney general.

It was just one of several attacks by Gersten on Bysiewicz’s qualifications as a lawyer during the first day of a trial that will continue today. Bysiewicz has sued her own office and the state Democratic Party, whose nomination for attorney general she hopes to win at its convention next month, in an effort to establish her credentials to become the state’s chief legal official.

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