Section 53a-51 - Classification of attempt and conspiracy.

CT Gen Stat § 53a-51 (2019) (N/A)
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Attempt and conspiracy are crimes of the same grade and degree as the most serious offense which is attempted or is an object of the conspiracy, except that an attempt or conspiracy to commit a class A felony is a class B felony.

(1969, P.A. 828, S. 52.)

Cited. 182 C. 595; 184 C. 369; 195 C. 183; 202 C. 520; 204 C. 630; 211 C. 18; 213 C. 708; 235 C. 502. Defendant guilty of conspiracy to commit robbery in the first degree is subject to the minimum nonsuspendable sentence in Sec. 53a-134(b). 264 C. 593.

Cited. 8 CA 545; 10 CA 447; 21 CA 299; 22 CA 567; 29 CA 843; 33 CA 253; 36 CA 190. Legislature clearly intended attempt and conspiracy to commit a class B felony to be punished the same as a class B felony or it would have noted otherwise, as it did with class A felonies. 118 CA 35.