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State v. Collette

Citations

  • 199 Conn. 308
  • 507 A.2d 99
  • 1986 Conn. LEXIS 767

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • identification reliable where victim had unobstructed view, was ten to fifteen feet away and directed attention to defendants
  • almost any one-to-one confrontation between victim and person whom police present as suspect presumptively suggestive
  • mere reference in report to information outside record does not require sentence to be set aside unless defendant shows information materially false and unreliable and court relied on information in determining sentence
  • mere reference in report to information outside record does not require sentence to be set aside unless defendant shows information materially false and unreliable and court relied on information in determining sentence
  • “the mere reference to information outside of the record does not require a sentence to be set aside unless the defendant shows: [1] that the information was materially false or unreliable; and [2] that the trial court substantially relied on the information in determining the sentence”

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Judges: Santaniello

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67 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

38 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Other cases named State v. Collette

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