Legal Opinion
State v. Duffen
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided November 23, 1970PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHouse, J.
The decisive issue on this appeal is the correctness of the decision of the court overruling an objection by the defendant to an in-court identification of the defendant by the victim of a robbery as the man who had held him up at gunpoint and robbed him of about $4000 in cash and $6000 in checks which he was about to deposit in a bank night depository vault.
The state offered evidence to prove that on February 15, 1967, James Wakula was employed by a supermarket in Norwalk and that at about 10 p.m., having totaled up the day’s receipts, he took them in his car to deposit them in the…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Wong Sun v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- United States v. WadeSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Stovall v. DennoSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Gilbert v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Coleman v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
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3Cited by16 opinions
- State v. VillafaneSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1976
- State v. MiddletonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1976
- State v. OliverSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1970
- State v. OliverSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1971
- George M. Saltys v. Frederick E. Adams, Warden, Connecticut State PrisonCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1972
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