Legal Opinion
State v. Preston
Connecticut Appellate Court
Decided September 23, 1997No. AC 15834PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
FOTI, J.
The defendant, John Preston, appeals from the judgment, rendered after a jury trial, convicting him of robbery in the third degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-136.1 On appeal, he claims that the trial court improperly (1) failed to instruct the jury on the lesser included offense of larceny in the sixth degree, (2) admitted the codefendant’s statement to police as a prior consistent statement, and (3) refused to give a Secondino 2 charge to the jury. We reverse the judgment of the trial court.
The jury reasonably could have found the following facts. On March 19,…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Secondino v. New Haven Gas Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1960
- State v. WhistnantSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1980
- State v. WaltonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1993
- State v. DolphinSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1979
- State v. SmithConnecticut Appellate Court · 1994
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3Cited by7 opinions
- State v. SmithSupreme Court of Connecticut · 2003
- State v. PrestonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1999
- State v. RozmyslowiczConnecticut Appellate Court · 1999
- State v. JeffersonConnecticut Appellate Court · 2009
- State v. ColeConnecticut Appellate Court · 2000
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