Supreme Court of Connecticut· 8/26/1986

State v. Pierson

Citations

201 Conn. 211
514 A.2d 724
1986 Conn. LEXIS 953

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stating that jury instructions omitting reference to 5 Connecticut’s voluntary-act requirement are not “constitutionally defective” when, as relevant here, “the evidence at trial contains no suggestion that the defendant’s conduct was involuntary”
requiring voir dire of expert \[w]here there is any reasonable basis in the evidence for believing that psychiatric personnel may have information relating to the mental condition of a witness that might affect his testimony\
‘‘[w]e have held that sexual assault in the first degree is a general intent crime with no element of specific intent’’
§§ 52-146d and 52-146e constitute “legislative restrictions upon the principle of implied waiver”
testimony by victim, victim’s mother and psychiatrist about sexual assault did not establish waiver with respect to “wholly separate communications related to treatment of the [victim] or his mother”
“[t]houghthe state bears the burden of disproving the [defense of duress] once . . . raised by the presentation of some evidence supporting [it], there is no requirement that evidence negating [it] be produced as part of the state’s prima facie case” [emphasis added]

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