Legal Opinion
State v. Ellis
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided September 10, 1985No. 12323; 12336PublishedCited by 146 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDannehy, J.
This appeal and reserved question present two primary issues: (1) whether the statute of limitations in effect when these offenses occurred imposes a five year limitation on the prosecution of capital felonies; and (2) whether the state must join in a single prosecution all discrete statutory offenses arising from a single criminal transaction.
In May, 1974, the badly decomposed body of seventeen year old Jay Cunningham was found in a heavily wooded area of Enfield. The chief medical examiner classified Cunningham’s death as a homicide resulting from multiple stab wounds. More than seven years…
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