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John Franklin v. Robert Berger et al.
    
      Carl J. Schuman, assistant attorney general, in support of the petition.
    
      Miriam Berkman, in opposition.
    Decided July 26, 1988
   The defendant’s petition for certification for appeal from the Appellate Court, 15 Conn. App. 74, is granted, limited to the issue: “Did the state violate the guarantees of equal protection contained in the Connecticut and the United States constitutions by declining to credit pretrial jail time against the length of an insanity acquittee’s commitment to a mental hospital?”