• In 1967 Ford was assistant public defender for Harlis Miller, in a case that had national coverage. • In 1987 Ford presided over the trial of serial killer
Michael Ross. The accounts of Karen Clarke of
The Day are stored at the
Connecticut State Library in Hartford. • In 1997 Ford was the sole dissenter in the 11-1 censure vote of
Harold H. Dean, at the time the state's most senior Superior Court judge. • In 2000 Ford presided on the
Adrian Peeler case and also split Adrian Peeler's case from his brother Russell Peeler, due to evidence in the shooting of the witnesses. Ford also presided on the case against Russell Peeler who was found guilty of ordering two murders. Ford's imposition of a life sentence when the jury deadlocked on a decision on the
death penalty was later overturned in 2004 by the
Connecticut Supreme Court which ordered a new sentencing hearing after appeal by the prosecutors on the case. The conviction, itself, was upheld. At a new sentencing hearing in 2007, Russell Peeler was sentenced to death, and later, in 2016, became the second formerly condemned prisoner resentenced to life in prison after Connecticut abolished the death penalty for already sentenced prisoners in 2015. Said Ford at Russell Peeler's sentencing: ''He doesn't deserve any consideration. He cannot be expected to be rehabilitated and be put back on the street and stay away from the criminal element. ... I'd be a fool to expect that.'' • In 2001, Ford presided over an unusual incident where a not guilty verdict was delivered but the accused had fled the courthouse. ==Notes==