Legal Opinion
State v. Soto
Connecticut Appellate Court
Decided August 22, 2000No. AC 19308PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
FOTI, J.
The defendant, Kevin Soto, appeals from the judgment of conviction, rendered after a jury trial, of murder in violation of General Statutes § 53a-54a (a).1 *502On appeal, the defendant claims that the trial court improperly (1) denied his motion in arrest of judgment in which he had claimed that the verdict2 was legally inconsistent as a matter of law and (2) excluded evidence. We affirm the judgment of the trial court.
The jury reasonably could have found the following facts. On April 22, 1996, officers from the Waterbury police department were dispatched to 49 Ridgewood Street…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- State v. HintonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1993
- State v. ManningSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1971
- State v. LewisSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1998
- State v. DecaroSupreme Court of Connecticut · 2000
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3Cited by8 opinions
- State v. ColonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 2001
- State v. LewisConnecticut Appellate Court · 2002
- State v. VinesConnecticut Appellate Court · 2002
- State v. HazelConnecticut Appellate Court · 2008
- State v. StavrakisConnecticut Appellate Court · 2005
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