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David Copeland v. Warden, State Prison
    
      David J. Wenc, in support of the petition.
    
      James M. Ralls, assistant state’s attorney, in opposition.
    Decided October 16, 1991
   The petitioner David Copeland’s petition for certification for appeal from the Appellate Court, 26 Conn. App. 10, is granted, limited to the following issue:

“After a defendant has been found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect, does the trial court have the authority to impose a criminal sentence consecutive to the defendant’s psychiatric commitment?”