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FRANKLIN v. BERGER

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211 Conn. 591 (1989)

JOHN FRANKLIN v. ROBERT BERGER ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decision released June 20, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl J. Schuman, assistant attorney general, with whom were William J. McCullough, assistant attorney general, and, on the brief, Clarine Nardi Riddle, acting attorney general, for the appellant (respondent).

Allison Rutland Soulen, certified legal intern, with whom were Miriam Berkman and, on the brief, Mary McCarthy, Stephen Wizner, J. L. Pottenger, Jr., Robert A. Solomon and Shelley Geballe, for the appellee (petitioner).

Steven M. Sellers, assistant state's attorney, filed a brief for the chief state's attorney as amicus curiae.

HEALEY, CALLAHAN, GLASS, COVELLO and HULL, JS.

CALLAHAN, J.

Certification was granted in this case limited to the question: "Did the state violate the guarantees of equal protection contained in the Connecticut and United States constitutions by declining to credit pretrial jail time against the length of an insanity acquittee's commitment to a mental hospital?" Franklin v. Berger, 208 Conn. 816, 546 A.2d 282 (1988). The Appellate Court answered this question in the affirmative. Franklin v...

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