Legal Opinion
State v. DeFreitas
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided January 8, 1980PublishedCited by 65 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCotter, C. J.
The bodies of a man and a woman buried in a shallow grave in a wooded area behind an A-frame house on Shewville Road in Ledyard, Connecticut were recovered by the Connecticut state police on May 30, 1974, acting on information supplied by Joanne Rainello, formerly the defendant’s common-law wife. At an autopsy it was determined that the man had died from gunshot wounds of the head and chest and that the woman had died from a gunshot wound of her head and brain.
A grand jury, on November 12, 1974, found a true bill of indictment charging the defendant with two counts of murder in the first…
2Cases cited62 opinions
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- State v. PiskorskiSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1979
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3Cited by65 opinions
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