SULLIVAN, C. J. The sole issue in this certified appeal is whether the Appellate Court properly concluded that the petitioner, Richard T. Carpenter, Jr., was entitled to an evidentiary hearing on his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. See Carpenter v. Commissioner of Correction, 268 Conn. 917, 847 A.2d 310 (2004). The respondent, the commissioner of correction (commissioner), Theresa C. Lantz, appeals from the judgment of the Appellate Court reversing the habeas court's dismissal of the petition and remanding the case for an evidentiary hearing.
Id., 212. Thereafter, this court granted the commissioner's petition for certification to appeal limited to the following question: Did the Appellate Court properly conclude that the petitioner was entitled to an evidentiary hearing on his petition for habeas corpus? Carpenter v. Commissioner of Correction, [ 268 Conn. 917, 847 A.2d 310 (2004)]." (Citations omitted; internal quotation marks omitted.)