172 Conn. App. 352 - Turner v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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9 state decisions

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1. “It is well established that under the common law a trial court has the discretionary power to modify or vacate a criminal judgment before the sentence has been executed.... This is so because the court loses jurisdiction over the case when the defendant is committed to the custody of the commissioner of correction and begins serving the sentence .... There are a limited number of circumstances in which the legislature has conferred on the trial courts continuing jurisdiction to act on their judgments after the commencement of sentence.... See, e.g., General Statutes §§ 53a-29 through 53a-34 (permitting trial court to modify terms of probation after sentence is imposed); General Statutes § 52-270 (granting jurisdiction to trial court to hear petition for a new trial after execution of original sentence has commenced); General Statutes § 53a-39 (allowing trial court to modify sentences of less than three years provided hearing is held and good cause shown).... Without a legislative or constitutional grant of continuing jurisdiction, however, the trial court lacks jurisdiction to modify its judgment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 182 Conn. App. 71 - State v. Bennett

2. “may grant a new trial of any action that may come before it ... for other reasonable cause,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 179 Conn. App. 337 - State v. Brown