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Supreme Court of Connecticut· 5/15/2001

State v. Lemoine

Citations

  • 256 Conn. 193
  • 770 A.2d 491
  • 2001 Conn. LEXIS 126

How courts have described this case

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

  • rejecting constitutional challenge to instruction that jurors could not find defendant guilty if they could “reconcile all of the facts proven with any reasonable theory consistent with the innocence of the accused” [internal quotation marks omitted]
  • Rejecting constitutional challenge to instruction that “reasonable doubt is a doubt which is something more than a guess or a surmise. It is not a conjecture or a fanciful doubt.” [Internal quotation marks omitted.]
  • rejecting constitutional challenge to instruction that jurors could not find defendant guilty if they could “reconcile all of the facts proven with any reasonable theory consistent with the innocence of the accused” [internal quotation marks omitted]
  • rejecting constitutional challenge to instruction that “[i]f you can in reason reconcile all of the facts proven with any reasonable theory consistent with the innocence of the accused, then you cannot find him guilty” [internal quotation marks omitted]
  • “ ‘[t]he state does not have to prove guilt beyond all doubt or to mathematical or absolute certainty’ ”
  • “[b]ecause the state made no claim that the defendant should have retreated . . . the defendant did not suffer constitutional harm by the trial court’s omission of an unnecessary and potentially confusing instruction on the duty to retreat”

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Judges: Sullivan

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