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Supreme Court of Connecticut· 7/10/1990

State v. Horne

Citations

  • 215 Conn. 538
  • 577 A.2d 694
  • 1990 Conn. LEXIS 224

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  • determining that evidence adduced at trial exposed defendant to prejudice and then considering whether trial court's instruction was adequate to mitigate that prejudice
  • determining that evidence adduced at trial exposed defendant to prejudice and then considering whether trial court’s instruction was adequate to mitigate that prejudice
  • recognizing instances when evidence is so inflammatory that it would be fiction to believe juror could put aside evidence heard
  • purpose is synonymous with object and intent in robbery statute which required actor to threaten force “for the purpose of” compelling the owner to deliver property
  • \[t]he brutality with which the assailant carried out the robbery and sexual assault in [one] case was very likely to have so aroused the passions of the jury that it interfered with their fair consideration of the other three cases\ in which defendant was charged only with robbery
  • “[t]he brutality with which the assailant carried out the robbery and sexual assault in [one] case was very likely to have so aroused the passions of the jury that it interfered with their fair consideration of the other three cases” in which defendant was charged only with robbery

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Judges: Covello

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