State v. Plante

The defendant appeals from his conviction of the kidnapping and aggravated felonious sexual assault of one victim, and the attempted kidnapping of another victim, on the basis of one issue: whether the Trial Court (Groff, J.) erred in refusing to give the defendant’s requested instruction on insanity and thereby deprived the defendant of a fair trial. We affirm.

The relevant facts are as follows. On the morning of October 7, 1987, the defendant exited his vehicle, approached a seventeen-year-old girl who was walking to school in Milford and asked her if she could provide directions out of…