State v. Lawrence

DUPONT, J., with whom FLYNN and McLACHLAN, Js.,

join, dissenting. I respectfully dissent. The majority construes the motion to correct an illegal sentence filed by the defendant, Tarrance Lawrence, and brought pursuant to Practice Book § 43-22, as an attempt to attack the validity of his underlying conviction, rather than the legality of his sentence, and concludes that the court lacked subject matter jurisdiction for such an attack. I believe the defendant is attacking the legality of his sentence, which rests on his claim that his underlying conviction was illegal. The question *777is whether…