487 F. Supp. 2d 3 - Boyd v. Lantz’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “[The petitioner, Terrence Boyd, was] first arrested and placed in custody on December 15, 1986. Following a jury trial in the Connecticut Superior Court, he was convicted of burglary, larceny, and felony murder. On January 21, 1988, he was sentenced to forty-five years of incarceration for felony murder, fifteen years for burglary, and five years for larceny, with the sentences to run concurrently. On March 6, 1990, the Connecticut Supreme Court vacated Boyd's felony murder conviction. He remained incarcerated on the burglary and larceny convictions. The state brought a new felony murder charge against Boyd, which he challenged pre-trial on double jeopardy grounds in state court. After losing his final appeal in state court, he filed a federal habeas petition in the [United States] District Court for the District of Connecticut that reiterated his double jeopardy claim. The district court denied Boyd's petition and the Second Circuit affirmed that decision. ... On October 7, 1996, the [United States] Supreme Court denied certiorari to his habeas petition.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. James v. Commissioner of Correction

2. “Any person who is confined to a community correctional center or a correctional institution ... under a mittimus or because such person is unable to obtain bail or is denied bail shall, if subsequently imprisoned, earn a reduction of such person's sentence equal to the number of days which such person spent in such facility from the time such person was placed in presentence confinement to the time such person began serving the term of imprisonment imposed; provided ... each day of presentence confinement shall be counted only once for the purpose of reducing all sentences imposed after such presentence confinement ....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. James v. Commissioner of Correction

3. “[w]hile the general validity of Connecticut's interest in preventing 'double counting' is undisputed, the record does not provide sufficient justification for the burden imposed on Boyd's exercise of this particular fundamental right. Unlike many other fundamental constitutional rights that may be fully exercised and vindicated [postconviction], the aspect of the double jeopardy right that prohibits [reprosecution] and allows for interlocutory appeals of the denial of that claim is what makes this case different.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. James v. Commissioner of Correction