Bell v. Commissioner of Correction

LEON BELL v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION (SC 20223) Robinson, C. J., and Palmer, D’Auria, Kahn, Ecker and Vertefeuille, Js.* Syllabus In accordance with this court’s decision in State v. Salamon ( 287 Conn. 509), when a criminal defendant is charged with kidnapping in conjunc- tion with another underlying crime, such as robbery, the jury must be instructed that the defendant cannot be convicted of kidnapping if the restraint imposed on the victim was merely incidental to the commission of that underlying crime. The petitioner, who had been convicted of multiple counts of kidnapping in the…