Legal Opinion
State v. Alonzo
Connecticut Appellate Court
Decided August 30, 2011No. AC 30725PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
BISHOP, J.
The defendant, Hector Alonzo, appeals from the judgment of conviction, rendered following a jury trial, of assault in the first degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-59 (a) (1) and assault in the second degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-60 (a) (2). On appeal, the defendant claims that the trial court (1) violated his state constitutional right to trial by jury when it instructed the jury that it must unanimously find the defendant not guilty of the assault in the first degree charge before it properly could consider a lesser included charge of assault in…
2Cases cited34 opinions
- Stein v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
- Ex Parte PetersonSupreme Court of the United States · 1920
- State v. GeislerSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1992
- Smith v. SpisakSupreme Court of the United States · 2010
- People v. BoettcherNew York Court of Appeals · 1987
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3Cited by2 opinions
- State v. MitchellConnecticut Appellate Court · 2017
- State v. AlonzoSupreme Court of Connecticut · 2011