Legal Opinion
State v. Madera
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided December 17, 1985No. 12377PublishedCited by 97 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtShea, J.
The defendant has appealed from his conviction upon a conditional plea of nolo contendere to an indictment charging him with fourteen counts of arson murder in violation of General Statutes § 53a-54d,1 one for each of the victims who died in the fire of an apartment building in Waterbury. The trial *94court imposed on each count the statutorily mandated sentence of life imprisonment without eligibility for parole and structured the sentences on the fourteen counts as consecutive or concurrent to result in an effective sentence of two consecutive life terms, 120 years of imprisonment pursuant to…
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