State v. Reyes

Citations

• 229 Conn. App. 121

Syllabus

The defendant, who had been convicted of various crimes in connection with two incidents of arson, and sentenced to a total effective term of twenty-five years of incarceration, execution suspended after fifteen years, and five years of probation, appealed from the trial court's denial of his motion for sentence modification. The defendant claimed that the court abused its discretion in finding that he had failed to establish good cause to modify his sentence. Held: The trial court did not abuse its discretion in determining that the defendant failed to establish good cause to warrant a sentence modification, the court having conducted an appropriate review of the information before it when it determined that the devastation and harm resulting from the seriousness of the defendant's conduct and the fact that he had only served less than one third of his sentence outweighed his rehabilitative efforts. Argued September 4—officially released November 12, 2024