110 Conn. App. 305 - State v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2025
18 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Pinkerton v. United States · State v. Golding · State v. Williams · Gordon v. Tobias · American Steamship Owners Mutual Protection & Indemnity Ass'n v. United States Lines, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
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“In 2005, following a jury trial, the petitioner was convicted of attempt to commit murder in violation of General Statutes §§ 53a-49 (a), 53a-8 and 53a-54a, conspiracy to commit murder in violation of General Statutes §§ 53a-48 (a) and 53a-54a, kidnapping in the first degree in violation of General Statutes §§ 53a-8 and 53a-92 (a) (2) (A), conspiracy to commit kidnapping in the first degree in violation of General Statutes §§ 53a-48 and 53a-92 (a) (2) (A), sexual assault in the first degree in violation of General Statutes §§ 53a-8 and 53a-70 (a) (1), conspiracy to commit sexual assault in the first degree in violation of General Statutes §§ 53a-48 and 53a-70 (a) (1), assault in the first degree in violation of General Statutes §§ 53a-8 and 53a-59 (a) (5), conspiracy to commit assault in the first degree in violation of General Statutes §§ 53a-48 (a) and 53a-59 (a) (5), and criminal possession of a firearm in violation of General Statutes § 53a-217 (a) (1). The court imposed a total effective sentence of fifty-seven years imprisonment. "The petitioner appealed from the judgment of conviction to this court, which affirmed the judgment of the trial court. State v. Mitchell, 110 Conn. App. 305 , 955 A.2d 84 , cert. denied, 289 Conn. 946 , 959 A.2d 1012 (2008).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A jury is presumed to follow the court's instructions, absent clear indication to the contrary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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