STATE v. ELLIS

(12336)

197 Conn. 436 (1985)

STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. BRIAN ELLIS STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. WILMER PARADISE, JR. STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. DAVID WORTHINGTON

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decision released September 10, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Massameno, assistant state's attorney, with whom, on the brief, were Austin J. McGuigan, chief state's attorney, John M. Bailey, state's attorney, Edward Spinella, former assistant state's attorney, Linda N. Knight, deputy assistant state's attorney, Katherine Lambert, former deputy assistant state's attorney, and A. Jeffrey Somers, legal intern, for the appellant-appellee (state). Amy J. Horowitz, with whom, on the brief, was Gerald M. Klein, for the appellee (defendant Brian Ellis).

Richard R. Brown, for the appellee (defendant Wilmer Paradise, Jr.).

Douglas S. Ebenstein, with whom were Mark Lever, legal intern, and, on the brief, Michael W. Levy, for the appellant (defendant David Worthington).

PETERS, C. J., HEALEY, DANNEHY, SANTANIELLO and CALLAHAN, JS.


DANNEHY, J.

This appeal and reserved question present two primary issues: (1) whether the statute of limitations in effect when these offenses occurred imposes a five year limitation on the prosecution of capital felonies; and (2) whether the state must join in a single prosecution all discrete statutory offenses arising from a single criminal transaction.

In May, 1974, the badly decomposed body of seventeen year old Jay Cunningham was found in a heavily wooded...

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