Legal Opinion
State v. Sawyer
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided August 31, 1993No. 14650PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Callahan, J.,
The dispositive issue in this appeal is whether the trial court properly instructed the jury that, during the course of its deliberations concerning greater and lesser included offenses, it must unanimously agree to acquit of the greater offense of murder before it could go on to consider the lesser included offenses of manslaughter.
The defendant, Bernard K. Sawyer, was charged in a substitute information with the crime of murder in violation of General Statutes § 53a-54a. After a jury trial, he was convicted of the lesser included offense of manslaughter in the first degree in…
2Cases cited43 opinions
- Beck v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Price v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- State v. ThomasOhio Supreme Court · 1988
- State v. SmithSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1881
- People v. BoettcherNew York Court of Appeals · 1987
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