State v. Ortiz

This is an appeal by the defendant from his convictions on charges of larceny in the second degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-123 and reckless driving in violation of General Statutes § 14-222. The jury might reasonably have found the following facts: At 10:22 p.m. on February 7, 1981, Officer Joseph Marrero of the Hartford police department was proceeding westerly on Park Street in Hartford through the intersection of Oak Street, a one-way street for north bound traffic. Suddenly a vehicle came down Oak Street in the wrong direction and crashed into Marrero’s vehicle leaving them…