Legal Opinion
State v. Cordova
Connecticut Superior Court
Decided July 16, 1982No. FILE No. 1151PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtF. Hennessy, J.
The defendant was found guilty of failure to grant the right of way to an emergency vehicle in violation of § 14-283 of the General Statutes. The action arose from a collision between a motorcycle operated by the defendant and a police car operated by a peace officer of the city of New Haven on July 1, 1979. An arrest warrant was signed by a judge of the Superior Court on September 27, 1979, and the defendant was arrested eighteen months later on March 9, 1981. Before trial, the defendant moved to have the charges, which are misdemeanors, dismissed on the ground that he was being prosecuted…
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