Legal Opinion
State v. West
Connecticut Appellate Court
Decided April 30, 1985No. 2700PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDaly, J.
The plaintiff has appealed1 from his conviction of sexual assault in the first degree,2 challenging the second substitute information and the instructions to the jury.
The jury could readily have found the following facts: About 7:50 a.m. on November 20, 1979, while awaiting a bus at the corner of Blue Hills Avenue and Plain-field Street in Hartford, the complainant was forced into the defendant’s car and driven to a remote section of Keney Park where she was sexually assaulted, struck in the face with the defendant’s fist and robbed. Although the complainant never actually saw a weapon…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- State v. EvansSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1973
- Connecticut v. JohnsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- United States v. Franklin Delano GipsonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1977
- State v. JonesSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1984
- State v. DennisSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1963
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3Cited by11 opinions
- State v. BaileySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1988
- State v. FlynnConnecticut Appellate Court · 1988
- State v. TuckerSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1993
- State v. MancinoneConnecticut Appellate Court · 1988
- State v. BeniteConnecticut Appellate Court · 1986
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