Legal Opinion
Festo v. Luckart
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided December 27, 1983No. 10857; 10858PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtParskey, J.
On June 29,1976, a jury convicted the plaintiffs, Ralph Festo and Clive Russell, former police officers in Stamford, of larceny in the first degree and acquitted them of burglary in the third degree. Festo and Russell had been represented by the same attorney at that trial. They were each sentenced to a term of not less than three nor more than six years. Their convictions were affirmed by this court on June 24, 1980. State v. Festo, 181 Conn. 254, 435 A.2d 38 (1980). They then hired separate counsel and applied for a writ of habeas corpus. The plaintiffs claimed their constitutional right to…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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- Wood v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
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3Cited by32 opinions
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