Legal Opinion
State v. Leak
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided July 27, 2010No. SC 18509PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
NORCOTT, J.
The dispositive issue in this appeal is whether General Statutes (Rev. to 1981) § 53a-47 (b) 1 authorized the trial court to order maximum terms of commitment consecutively in imposing a total period of confinement following insanity acquittals for multiple offenses. The defendant, Benjamin Leak, appeals 2 from the judgments of the trial court determining that the maximum terms of commitment for the two criminal cases in which he was found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect for assault in the first degree, assault in the second degree and possession of a…
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