168 Conn. App. 847 - State v. Collymore’s Empirical Analysis

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8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “it is clearly improper to increase a defendant's sentence based on [his or her] decision to stand on [his or her] right to put the [g]overnment to its proof rather than plead guilty .... Nevertheless, a defendant's general lack of remorse ... and refusal to accept responsibility ... for crimes of which he was convicted are legitimate sentencing considerations .... [R]eview of claims that a trial court lengthened a defendant's sentence as a punishment for exercising his or her constitutional right to a jury trial should be based on the totality of the circumstances.... [T]he burden of proof in such cases rests with the defendant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 180 Conn. App. 250 - State v. Angel M.

2. “1. Whether the Appellate Court properly held that a prosecutor's grant of immunity to a witness for his testimony during the state's case-in-chief does not extend to the same witness' testimony when later called by the defendant as a witness?”

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