Opinion
03-18-2020
STATE of Connecticut v. Noel BERMUDEZ
Pamela S. Nagy, assistant public defender, in support of the petition. Timothy F. Costello, assistant state's attorney, in opposition.
Pamela S. Nagy, assistant public defender, in support of the petition.
Timothy F. Costello, assistant state's attorney, in opposition.
The defendant's petition for certification to appeal from the Appellate Court, 195 Conn. App. 780, 228 A.3d 96 (2020), is granted, limited to the following issues:
"1. Did the Appellate Court properly uphold the trial court's admission of evidence that the defendant was a gang member and that the state's chief witness was relocated out of state after providing her statement to the police inculpating the defendant?
"2. Did the Appellate Court correctly conclude that the trial court's erroneous preclusion of sexually explicit letters the state's chief witness wrote to the defendant was harmless and that the trial court's limitation on the defendant's cross-examination of her was proper?
"3. Did the Appellate Court properly uphold the trial court's rulings limiting the defendant's cross-examination of the state's chief witness on topics regarding her credibility?"