State v. Norman

By the Division.

On January 5,1972, the defendant, then twenty-four years old, pleaded guilty to several counts in various informations to breaking and entering a dwelling in the daytime and to breaking and entering with criminal intent. The maximum penalty for these offenses is a term in prison for not more than four years. General Statutes §§ 53-73, 53-76.

The defendant had been a narcotics addict for a number of years. He eventually reached a peak of twenty-five bags of heroin a day. Since he could not support this habit through normal channels, he began to break into homes in the Hartford…