Legal Opinion

State v. Erzen

Connecticut Appellate Court

Decided December 1, 1992No. 10858PublishedCited by 15 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtLandau, J.

The defendant appeals from the judgment of conviction, rendered after a trial to the court, of two counts of risk of injury to a child in violation of General Statutes § 53-21.1 The defendant claims that *592§ 53-21 as applied to the facts of this case is so vague and indefinite as to violate the due process provisions of article first, § 8, of the Connecticut constitution and the fourteenth amendment to the United States constitution. We disagree.

The trial court could reasonably have found the following facts. On Saturday, May 18, 1991, P took her eight year old daughter, C, and her daughter’s…

2Cases cited20 opinions

  1. Grayned v. City of RockfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  2. United States v. BatchelderSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  3. Winters v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
  4. State v. ChetcutiSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1977
  5. State v. PickeringSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1980

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3Cited by15 opinions

  1. State v. PayneSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1997
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  3. State v. BranhamConnecticut Appellate Court · 2000
  4. State v. CutroConnecticut Appellate Court · 1995
  5. State v. GeorgeConnecticut Appellate Court · 1995

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