Resentencing ordered for Enfield man in Windsor man's death

Alex Wood, Journal Inquirer, Manchester, Conn.
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May 31—The state Appellate Court has ordered a new sentencing hearing for Antwan Sease of Enfield, who was sentenced in 2011 to 60 years in prison for involvement in the 2009 robbery during which Edward "Duey" Haslam of Windsor was shot to death outside a Hartford nightclub.

NEW SENTENCING

DEFENDANT: Antwan James Sease, 34, formerly of New King Street in Enfield.

CONVICTIONS: Felony murder, first-degree robbery, conspiracy to commit first-degree robbery.

SENTENCE: 60 years, but a Superior Court judge may have to reconsider that in light of additional information about Sease's psychiatric history.

A unanimous three-judge Appellate Court panel held that Sease's trial lawyer, Carmine J. Giuliano, represented him ineffectively at the 2011 sentencing by failing to investigate his troubled psychiatric history and present the information to the judge.

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