Supreme Court of Connecticut
State v. McCleese
August 23, 2019333 Conn. 378
Summary
The court held that retroactive parole eligibility under P.A. 15-84 adequately remedies the defendant's unconstitutional juvenile sentence, so his motion to correct an illegal sentence was moot and properly dismissed. It further held that the statute did not violate separation of powers, due process, or equal protection. Justice Ecker, dissenting, would have required resentencing because parole eligibility did not remedy the defective individualized sentencing proceeding; Justice Palmer, concurring, would have reserved an unraised due process theory for another case.