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Criminal Law Appellate Court Opinion

by Greenlee, Rebecca

 

AC46859 - State v. Daren S. ("The defendant, Daren S., appeals from the judgment of conviction, rendered following a jury trial, of sexual assault in the first degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-70 (a) (1), sexual assault in the third degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-72a (a) (3), and unlawful restraint in the first degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-95. The defendant claims that (1) the trial court improperly admitted evidence of uncharged sexual assaults of the victim, A, by the defendant when she was a minor; (2) the court improperly admitted expert testimony on delayed reporting by victims of child sexual abuse because A was an adult when the charged conduct occurred and did not delay reporting that conduct; (3) the convictions of sexual assault in the first degree and sexual assault in the third degree amounted to multiple punishments for the same act in violation of the guarantee against double jeopardy set forth in the fifth amendment to the United States constitution as applied to the states through the fourteenth amendment; and (4) the conviction of unlawful restraint in the first degree cannot stand because, consistent with our Supreme Court’s holding in State v. Salamon, 287 Conn. 509, 949 A.2d 1092 (2008), the restraint used was merely incidental to his commission of sexual assault in the first degree. We reject the defendant’s claims and, accordingly, affirm the judgment of the court.")