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STATE v. CARPENTER

(14173)

220 Conn. 169 (1991)

STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. RICHARD T. CARPENTER, JR.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decision released August 20, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Williams, for the appellant (defendant).

Steven M. Sellers, assistant state's attorney, with whom, on the brief, was Michael Dearington, state's attorney, for the appellee (state).

SHEA, CALLAHAN, GLASS, COVELLO and BORDEN, JS.

CALLAHAN, J.

The issue in this appeal is whether a criminal defendant's right to due process is violated when he is resentenced on a lesser included offense after a successful appeal of the greater offense and receives a sentence which, while thirty years less than his original sentence, is the maximum sentence allowed for the lesser offense, when he had received only five-sixths of the maximum sentence allowed...

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