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STATE v. DEFREITAS

179 Conn. 431 (1980)

STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. RICHARD DEFREITAS

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decision released January 8, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael R. Sheldon, with whom were Richard L. Lougee and, on the brief, James J. Barrett III, law student intern, for the appellant (defendant).

C. Robert Satti, state's attorney, with whom was Richard C. Shiffrin, assistant state's attorney, for the appellee (state).

COTTER, C. J., LOISELLE, BOGDANSKI, SPEZIALE and HEALEY, JS.

COTTER, C. J.

The bodies of a man and a woman buried in a shallow grave in a wooded area behind an A-frame house on Shewville Road in Ledyard, Connecticut were recovered by the Connecticut state police on May 30, 1974, acting on information supplied by Joanne Rainello, formerly the defendant's common-law wife. At an autopsy it was determined that the man had died from gunshot wounds of the head and chest and that the woman had died from a gunshot wound of her head...

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