Legal Opinion
State v. Beltran
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided August 11, 1998No. SC 15635PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
BORDEN, J.
The defendant appeals1 from the judgment of conviction, after a jury trial, of one count of capital felony in violation of General Statutes § 53a-54b (8).2 The defendant claims that: (1) the trial court’s instructions on self-defense were flawed; and (2) he was deprived of his state and federal constitutional rights to equal protection of the laws because the trial court improperly sustained the state’s peremptory challenge to a Hispanic venireperson. We affirm the judgment.
*270The jury reasonably could have found the following facts. The defendant, Miguel M. Beltran, a…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Hernandez v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- State v. GoldingSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1989
- Connecticut v. PorterSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1997
- United States of America, Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Alfred J. Rioux, Appellant/cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1996
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3Cited by34 opinions
- State v. SchiappaSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1999
- Olson v. Accessory Controls & Equipment Corp.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 2000
- State v. HodgeSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1999
- State v. RamosSupreme Court of Connecticut · 2002
- State v. KingSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1999
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