State v. Pond
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was found guilty of conspiracy to commit robbery in the second degree in violation of Conn. Gen. Stat. 53a-48(a). Defendant appealed, arguing that the trial court erred by failing to instruct the jury that, to find Defendant guilty of the conspiracy charge, it must find that he had specifically intended that the planned robbery would involve the display or threatened use of what was represented to be a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument. The Appellate Court agreed with Defendant and reversed. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that, to be convicted of conspiracy to commit robbery in the second degree, a defendant must specifically intend that there would be the display or threatened use of what was represented as a deadly weapon or dangerous object during the robbery or immediate flight therefrom.
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