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- Title: State V. Parra
- Author : Connecticut Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 14, 1999
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 60 KB
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The defendant, Juan Parra, was charged with, inter alia, manslaughter in the second degree with a motor vehicle in violation of General Statutes § 53a-56b, *fn1 based upon an accident that occurred on November 18, 1990. After rejecting an earlier plea agreement between the defendant and the state, the court accepted the defendant's plea of nolo contendere on June 28, 1991, and rendered judgment thereon. The defendant subsequently filed a motion to vacate the 1991 judgment and to withdraw his plea on November 4, 1997. The issue to be resolved in this appeal is whether Public Acts 1997, No. 97-256, § 6 (P.A. 97-256), which amended General Statutes § 54-1j *fn2 by, inter alia, limiting the time within which a defendant may move to vacate a judgment and withdraw a plea, should be applied retroactively to crimes committed prior to October 1, 1997, the effective date of the amendment. We conclude that, in enacting P.A. 97-256, § 6, the legislature clearly intended to apply such time limit retroactively. Therefore, because the defendant's motion to vacate the judgment and withdraw his plea was filed six years after the judgment was rendered, his motion is barred by the three year statute of limitations established by P.A. 97-256, § 6. Accordingly, we affirm the trial court's denial of that motion. *fn3