118 Conn. App. 140 - State v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis

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27 state decisions

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The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The sixth amendment to the United States constitution as applied to the states through the fourteenth amendment, and article first, § 8, of the Connecticut constitution, guarantee to a criminal defendant the right to [the] effective assistance of counsel. . . . Where a constitutional right to counsel exists . . . there is a correlative right to representation that is free from conflicts of interest.” (Internal quotation marks omitted.) State v. Cator, 256 Conn. 785, 793 , 781 A.2d 285 (2001). “There are two circumstances under which a trial court has a duty to inquire with respect to a conflict of interest: (1) when there has been a timely conflict objection at trial ... or (2) when the trial court knows or reasonably should know that a particular conflict exists . . . .” (Internal quotation marks omitted.) Id., 793-94 ; State v. Thompson, 118 Conn. App. 140, 146-47 , 983 A.2d 20 (2009), cert. denied, 294 Conn. 932 , 986 A.2d 1057 (2010).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Hansen

2. “Put simply, we are unable to conclude that the evidence before us does not reasonably support a finding that the defendant's restraint of the victim was or was not so inextricably linked to the underlying crime itself.... Contrary to the state's contention, it is not clear beyond a reasonable doubt that the verdict would have been the same in the absence of the alleged impropriety. The state's evidence was not so overwhelming that it would prevent a converse finding by the fact finder as to whether the defendant's restraint of the victim was inherent in, or merely incidental to, the sexual assault.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 168 Conn. App. 803 - Nogueira v. Commissioner of Correction

3. “the court was required to have made a specific factual finding, if it determined that such a finding was justified by the evidence, that the defendant ... must have intend[ed] to prevent the victim's liberation for a longer period of time or to a greater degree than that which [was] necessary to commit the other crime.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 168 Conn. App. 803 - Nogueira v. Commissioner of Correction