Supreme Court of Connecticut· 8/8/1995

State v. Cobb

Citations

234 Conn. 735
663 A.2d 948
1995 Conn. LEXIS 308

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raising claim that “the death penalty scheme has been disproportionately applied to black defendants or to defendants whose victims were white”
raising claim that \the death penalty scheme has been disproportionately applied to black defendants or to defendants whose victims were white\
“[w]e will not infer that the legislature intended to enact a significant change in existing law without an unequivocally expressed manifestation of legislative intent” [internal quotation marks omitted]
‘‘the nature of the defendant’s claim of systemic racial bias, and the seriousness and finality of the death penalty, counsel against raising any undue procedural barriers to review of such a claim’’

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Judges: Borden

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