State v. Knight

Opinion

KATZ, J.

This appeal1 arises from a procedurally unique criminal trial, wherein two counts of the criminal information were decided by the jury and a third count was decided separately by the court. The defendant, Clifton Knight, Jr., appeals from the judgment of conviction of criminal possession of a firearm in violation of General Statutes § 53a-217.2 The defendant claims that the trial court improperly denied his motion for judgment of acquittal because: (1) the trial court was collaterally estopped from finding that the defendant had possessed a firearm because the jury had found…