Legal Opinion
State v. Echols
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided May 5, 1987No. 12716PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSantaniello, J.
The defendant, Winston Echols, was found guilty by a jury of kidnapping in the first degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-92 (a) (2) (A)1 and of sexual assault in the first degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-70 (a).2 He received a total effective sentence of twenty years. On appeal, he claims that the trial court erred in: (1) excluding evidence of a third party lookalike who had committed a similar crime in the vicinity of the present crime; (2) precluding cross-examination on a contemporaneous misidentification of the defendant; (3) refusing to strike the victim’s as…
2Cases cited25 opinions
- Chambers v. MississippiSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Washington v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- State v. SharpeSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1985
- United States v. Dwight ArmstrongCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1980
- State v. GoldSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1980
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3Cited by47 opinions
- State v. KoedatichSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1988
- State v. SantiagoSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1992
- State v. AlvarezSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1990
- State v. DelossantosSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1989
- State v. BolesSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1992
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