Legal Opinion
State v. Edwards
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided February 27, 1990No. 13384PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPeters, C. J.
The dispositive issue in this appeal is the sufficiency of the evidentiary foundation for the request of a defendant, charged with having committed the crime of murder, that the jury be instructed on the lesser included nonintentional homicides of manslaughter in the first and second degrees and criminally negligent homicide. A jury found the defendant, Ross Blaine Edwards, guilty of the murder of his sister, in violation of General Statutes § 53a-54a.1 The defendant has appealed from the judgment of the trial court sentencing him to a term of life imprisonment. We find error and remand for a…
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