FILE - Connecticut state Sen. Louis DeLuca, R-Woodbury, former state Senate Minority leader, emphasizes a point as he testifies before a special Senate committee investigating his guilty plea on a threatening charge, at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford, Conn., Monday, Oct. 15, 2007. DeLuca, a former Republican leader of the Connecticut state Senate who served 17 years in the General Assembly before reluctantly resigning, died Friday, July 28, 2023, at age 89. (AP Photo/Bob Child, File)