Opinion
06-30-2020
STATE of Connecticut v. Darrell TINSLEY
Melissa L. Streeto, senior assistant state's attorney, in support of the petition. Naomi T. Fetterman, assigned counsel, in opposition.
Melissa L. Streeto, senior assistant state's attorney, in support of the petition.
Naomi T. Fetterman, assigned counsel, in opposition.
The plaintiff's petition for certification to appeal from the Appellate Court, 197 Conn. App. 302, 232 A.3d 86 (2020), is granted, limited to the following issue:
"Did the Appellate Court correctly conclude that, notwithstanding the fact that manslaughter in the first degree, under General Statutes § 53a-55 (a) (1), and risk of injury to a child, under General Statutes (Rev. to 1995) § 53-21, as amended by Public Acts 1995, No. 95-142, § 1, are not the same offense under Blockburger v. United States, 284 U.S. 299, 52 S. Ct. 180, 76 L. Ed. 306 (1932), the defendant's conviction of those crimes nonetheless violated the double jeopardy clause of the United States constitution because, as charged in the information, those crimes stood in relation of greater and lesser included offenses?"