Legal Opinion
State v. Holbrook
Connecticut Appellate Court
Decided September 12, 2006No. AC 25771PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
FOTI, J.
On December 8, 1996, John Fred Dean was shot and killed inside a Bridgeport nightclub known as the Factory. The state charged the defendant, Michael A. Holbrook, with Dean’s murder. In 2003, the defendant’s first jury trial ended in a mistrial. After a second trial, in 2004, the jury found the defendant not guilty of murder but found him guilty of the lesser included offense of manslaughter in the first degree with a firearm in violation of General Statutes § 53a-55a (a). The jury also made a finding that the defendant had committed a class A, B or C felony with a firearm in…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- State v. GoldingSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1989
- California v. TybergSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- State v. WhelanSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1986
- State v. CarpenterSupreme Court of Connecticut · 2005
- State v. LopezSupreme Court of Connecticut · 2004
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