182 Conn. App. 563 - State v. Bischoff’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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1. “The defendant finally claims that he is entitled to resentencing on his conviction of possession of narcotics because the legislature has retroactively reclassified the violation of § 21a-279, for a first offense, as a class A misdemeanor, which carries a maximum sentence of one year of incarceration. See Public Acts, Spec. Sess., June, 2015, No. 15-2, § 1. The defendant concedes, as he must, that this court's holding in State v. Moore , 180 Conn. App. 116 , 124, [ 182 A.3d 696 , cert. denied, 329 Conn. 905 , 185 A.3d 595 ] (2018), in which this court held that the 2015 amendment to § 21a-279 (a), which took effect October 1, 2015, does not apply retroactively and is dispositive of his claim. The defendant's claim that he is entitled to be resentenced must therefore fail.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 189 Conn. App. 119 - State v. Bischoff