Supreme Court of Connecticut· 9/11/2007

State v. Bell

Citations

931 A.2d 198
283 Conn. 748
2007 Conn. LEXIS 369
2007 WL 2481026

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reiterating risk of dis- torting burden of proof, especially when witnesses jury must find to be lying are police officers
before sentence enhancement is imposed, jury, not sentencing court, must make finding that offender’s extended incarceration would serve public interest
“[t]his court previously rejected a claim that a trial court improperly had determined that a witness’ testimony at trial—that he could not recall certain facts from a prior statement—was inconsistent with his prior statement”
“[a]s a general rule, [t]he use of . . . different terms . . . within the same statute suggests that the legislature acted with complete awareness of their different meanings . . . and that it intended the terms to have different meanings” [internal quotation marks omitted]

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Judges: Rogers, Norcott, Katz, Vertefeuille, Zarella

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