State v. Ward

STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. JEFFREY K. WARD (SC 20427) Robinson, C. J., and McDonald, D’Auria, Kahn, Ecker and Keller, Js. Syllabus The defendant, who had been convicted, on a plea of guilty, of manslaughter in the first degree and assault in the first degree, appealed from the trial court’s dismissal of his motion to correct a sentence that was imposed in an illegal manner. The defendant had claimed in his motion that he was incompetent at the time of sentencing and that the sentencing court failed to order, sua sponte, a competency evaluation and hearing before imposing sentence. The defendant…