Legal Opinion
Fitzgerald Council v. Com'r of Correction
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided April 22, 2008No. 18015, 18016PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
ZARELLA, J.
The petitioner, Fitzgerald Council, filed this habeas action, claiming, inter alia, that (1) the trial court deprived him of his due process rights under the fifth and fourteenth amendments to the United States constitution by conditioning his plea agreement on his not being arrested between the date of the plea and the date of sentencing, including arrests that might be beyond the petitioner’s power to prevent, and (2) his presentence confinement in one case was not properly credited against the sentence at issue in another case as a result of his trial counsel’s…
2Cases cited22 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Apprendi v. New JerseySupreme Court of the United States · 2000
- Hill v. LockhartSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- North Carolina v. AlfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Santobello v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
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3Cited by28 opinions
- Crawford v. Commissioner of CorrectionSupreme Court of Connecticut · 2009
- Afkari-Ahmadi v. Fotovat-AhmadiSupreme Court of Connecticut · 2009
- State v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 2008
- Anderson v. Commissioner of CorrectionConnecticut Appellate Court · 2009
- Eubanks v. Comm'r of Corr.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 2018
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