41 Conn. Super. Ct. 525 - State v. Leary’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
January 2008
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Buckley v. Valeo · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Texas v. Johnson · Yates v. United States · Samuels v. J Mackell Fernandez
Most-quoted passages
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“The party attacking a validly enacted statute, however, bears the heavy burden of proving its unconstitutionality beyond a reasonable doubt and we indulge in every presumption in favor of the statute's constitutionality. . . . In choosing between two constructions of a statute, one valid and one constitutionally precarious, we will search for an effective and constitutional construction that reasonably accords with the legislature's underlying intent. . . .(Citations omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Whenever a portion of a statute appears to be void for vagueness on its face, thereby threatening to produce a chilling effect on the remainder of the statute which might otherwise be valid, Connecticut courts, like the federal courts, have, whenever possible, applied a `judicial gloss' to the statute to save it from fatal infection and inevitable invalidation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[W]here the legislature, out of a desire to assure that no artful semanticist will escape the burden of the statute, employs, indiscriminately, seriatim, a number of similar words some virtually identical, others differing slightly, the better practice would appear to be to let each help to define the other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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