State v. Ellis

Decided 1985-09-10

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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 ye…

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