State v. Battle

STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. REGGIE BATTLE (SC 20396) Robinson, C. J., and McDonald, D’Auria, Mullins, Kahn, Ecker and Keller, Js. Syllabus The defendant, whose probation had been revoked after a finding of a violation thereof, appealed to the Appellate Court from the trial court’s dismissal of his motion to correct the allegedly illegal sentence imposed in connection with the revocation of his probation. The defendant claimed that his sentence was illegal because the violation of probation statute (§ 53a-32 (d)) did not authorize the trial court to impose a sen- tence of special parole following…