State v. Moore

*118 The defendant, Jerome F. Moore, appeals from the judgment of the trial court denying his motion to correct an illegal sentence. On appeal, the defendant claims that the court incorrectly concluded that (1) the 2015 amendment to General Statutes § 21a-279 (a), which the legislature passed during a special session in June, 2015; see Public Acts, Spec. Sess., June, 2015, No. 15-2, § 1; does not apply retroactively to his sentence, 1 and (2) his five *699 year sentence does not violate the eighth amendment to the United States constitution *119 or article first, §§ 8 and 9, of the Connecticut…