Opinion
(14291)
Submitted on briefs November 1, 1995
Decision released November 28, 1995
Substitute information, in the first case, charging the defendant with the crimes of possession of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell and interfering with an officer, and substitute information, in the second case, charging the defendant with the crimes of larceny in the sixth degree and failure to appear in the second degree, brought to the Superior Court in the judicial district of Hartford-New Britain at Hartford, where the court, Espinosa, J., accepted the defendant's pleas of guilty in both cases to the charges of possession of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell and failure to appear in the second degree; thereafter, the state nollied the charges of possession of a controlled substance and interfering with an officer in the first case, and of larceny in the sixth degree in the second case; subsequently, the court, Dyer, J., denied the defendant's motions to vacate the pleas, and the court, Espinosa, J., rendered judgments in accordance with the pleas, from which the defendant filed separate appeals to this court, which were consolidated. Affirmed.
M. Donald Cardwell filed a brief for the appellant (defendant).
James E. Thomas, state's attorney, Lisa Herskowitz, deputy assistant state's attorney, and Vicki Melchiorre, Alfred Baldwin and Roseanne Wagner, assistant state's attorneys, filed a brief for the appellee (state).