Szarwak v. Warden of Connecticut Correctional Institution

The plaintiff was sentenced in Circuit Court 14 to the correctional center at Somers for a term of not less than eighteen months nor more than three years. He claims that this sentence is illegal because (1) the prosecutor failed to disclose to the court all of the material terms of the plea bargain; (2) the court, in rejecting the recommended sentence, refused to permit the plaintiff to withdraw his guilty plea; and (3) the sentence imposed exceeded the constitutionally permitted jurisdiction of the Circuit Court.

The plaintiff was initially charged with seven counts of receiving stolen…