Legal Opinion

State v. Grant

Supreme Court of Connecticut

Decided February 4, 1992No. 14204PublishedCited by 36 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtGlass, J.

After a jury trial, the defendant, LeVern Grant,1 was convicted of murder in violation of General Statutes § 53a-54a.2 The trial court sentenced the *95defendant to a term of fifty years imprisonment. From this judgment of conviction the defendant appeals, claiming that the trial court improperly: (1) admitted as substantive evidence, at both the probable cause hearing and the trial, tape-recorded statements that two witnesses made to the police; (2) made a finding of probable cause when the probable cause hearing was fatally flawed by the admission of the tape-recorded statements as substantive…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. California v. TybergSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
  2. State v. WhelanSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1986
  3. Secondino v. New Haven Gas Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1960
  4. State v. ReidSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1984
  5. State v. AlvarezSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1990

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3Cited by36 opinions

  1. State v. RossSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1994
  2. State v. PierreSupreme Court of Connecticut · 2006
  3. State v. WoodsonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1993
  4. State v. LewisSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1998
  5. State v. MukhtaarSupreme Court of Connecticut · 2000

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