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Criminal Law Supreme Court Slip Opinion

by Booth, George

 

SC20399 - State v. Alicea (Inconsistent verdicts; Whether the defendant's convictions of intentional assault in the first degree and reckless assault in the first degree were inconsistent.; "In State v. Nash, 316 Conn. 651, 666, 114 A.3d 128 (2015), we held that convictions of intentional assault in the first degree and reckless assault in the first degree may be legally consistent when each mutually exclusive mental state pertains to a different result. Thereafter, in State v. King, 321 Conn. 135, 145, 136 A.3d 1210 (2016) (King 2016), we applied this rationale to again conclude that convictions of intentional and reckless assault were legally consistent. This certified appeal requires us to determine whether this precedent governs the outcome of the present case. We conclude that it does.")