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State v. Payne

Citations

  • 240 Conn. 766
  • 695 A.2d 525
  • 1997 Conn. LEXIS 127

How courts have described this case

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  • implying that facial challenge is appropriate when fundamental right is implicated
  • implying in dicta that facial challenge is appropriate when any fundamental constitutional right is challenged on vagueness grounds
  • leaving seventeen month old child unattended in apartment created situation risking injury to child's life or limb
  • rejecting due process claim when “defendant has made no plausible argument, nor can we conceive of one, that he acted in reliance on the belief that his conduct was lawful, or that a person of ordinary intelligence would have no reason to know that he was engaging in prohibited conduct”
  • defendant convicted of coercion after forcing three children under threat of death to urinate into cup
  • because “health” means state of being hale, sound or whole in body, mind or well-being, mental health encompassed by legislature’s use of term in § 53-21

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Judges: Berdon, Norcott

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