State v. Dupas

Opinion

McLACHLAN, J.

This appeal concerns the scope of the trial court’s discretion to modify a sentence pursuant to General Statutes § 53a-39 (b). The defendant, DeanEric Dupas, appeals directly 2 from the judgment of the trial court denying his motion for modification of his sentence pursuant to § 53a-39 (b). The sole issue in this appeal is whether the trial court abused its discretion in refusing to reduce the defendant’s sentence of forty-seven years in consideration of the defendant’s postsentence testimony for the state against one of his codefendants, Keith Foster, during Foster’s…