Legal Opinion
State v. Cooper
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided August 19, 1980PublishedCited by 95 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtArthur H. Healey, J.
The single issue presented in this appeal is whether the trial court erred in *208refusing to instruct the jury in accordance with the defendant’s request to charge relating to the motive the complaining witness had to testify falsely.
The defendant Nathaniel Cooper, together with Rudell Carr and Toby Benjamin, was charged in a substituted information with burglary in the second degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-102(a) and criminal attempt to commit robbery in the second degree in violation of General Statutes §§ 53a-135 and 53a-49. The case was tried to a jury, which found the…
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- State v. GriffinSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1978
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