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State v. Faust

Citations

  • 237 Conn. 454
  • 678 A.2d 910
  • 1996 Conn. LEXIS 213

How courts have described this case

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

  • concluding that trial court’s instruction to jury that it need not consider whether Gamer was correctional institution, if it found that “[the incident] occurred at Gamer,” constituted harmless error beyond reasonable doubt
  • trial judge’s ability to ques- tion prospective jurors facilitates its task of excluding from jury any person about whom it entertains doubts regarding impartiality
  • “ ‘a supplemental charge is likely to enjoy special prominence in the minds of the jurors because it is fresher in their minds when they deliberate’ ”
  • similarly cautioning about attempts to clarify meaning of “reasonable doubt”
  • similarly cautioning about attempts to clarify meaning of \reasonable doubt\
  • appellate courts should read instructions as whole

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Judges: Berdon, Peters

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