Legal Opinion
State v. Santiago
Connecticut Appellate Court
Decided April 3, 2007No. AC 27110PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
LIARPER, J.
The defendant, Charlie D. Santiago, appeals from the judgment of conviction, rendered after a jury trial, of murder in violation of General Statutes § 53a-54a (a). The defendant claims that (1) prosecutorial misconduct deprived him of a fair trial, and (2) the trial court’s self-defense instruction deprived him of his rights to present a defense and to a fair trial. We affirm the judgment of the trial court.
The jury reasonably could have found the following facts. On March 12, 1993, at approximately noon, the defendant was washing his automobile alongside a residential…
2Cases cited31 opinions
- State v. GoldingSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1989
- State v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1987
- State v. SinghSupreme Court of Connecticut · 2002
- United States v. George Gordon Liddy, A/K/A George F. LeonardCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1974
- State v. WarholicSupreme Court of Connecticut · 2006
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3Cited by13 opinions
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- State v. VilchelConnecticut Appellate Court · 2009
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