He was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1937 to 1943, serving as Democratic floor leader from 1939 to 1943.
[3] His service terminated on September 24, 1997, due to his death of viral pneumonia in Danielson.
[2] Clarie's most famous case was the trial of members of the Puerto Rican nationalist group Los Macheteros accused of robbing a Wells Fargo bank in West Hartford, Connecticut, of nearly $7.6 million.
Claire presided over the trial, at which the defense lawyers were William Kunstler and Leonard Weinglass.
[1][2] Although Clarie kept his chambers in Hartford, Connecticut, the state capital, he lived in the rural small town of Danielson in a Colonial-style house on a 220-acre farm, making the 104-mile round trip almost every workday.