State v. Elmer G.

4 Citing cases

  1. State v. Elmer G.

    333 Conn. 176 (Conn. 2019)   Cited 6 times

    And (2) "[d]id the Appellate Court properly conclude that the defendant was not deprived of his right to a fair trial by prosecutorial impropriety?" State v. Elmer G. , 327 Conn. 971, 173 A.3d 952 (2017). We declined to certify a question regarding whether there was sufficient evidence to support the defendant's conviction of sexual assault.

  2. State v. Bumgarner-Ramos

    187 Conn. App. 725 (Conn. App. Ct. 2019)   Cited 5 times
    Concluding that defendant's conviction of both assault in first degree and manslaughter in first degree violated constitutional guarantee against double jeopardy because defendant could not have caused victim's death in manner charged without first having caused victim serious physical injury

    See, e.g., State v. Gerald A. , 183 Conn. App. 82, 94, 191 A.3d 1003 ("jury was free to infer, on the basis of this record and its common sense, that if [the victim] flinched and clenched because [i]t hurt when the defendant tried to put his finger inside of her vagina, that the defendant digitally penetrated, at the very least, [the victim's] labia majora." [internal quotation marks omitted] ), cert. denied, 330 Conn. 914, 193 A.3d 1210 (2018) ; State v. Elmer G. , 176 Conn. App. 343, 354, 170 A.3d 749 (concluding that jury could infer that when defendant forced victim to put her "mouth on his penis," that defendant did so "in a manner that caused his penis to enter into her mouth"), cert. granted on other grounds, 327 Conn. 971, 173 A.3d 952 (2017) ; State v. Edwin M. , 124 Conn. App. 707, 725–26 and n.7, 6 A.3d 124 (2010) (evidence that anal injury consistent with penile penetration sufficient for the purposes of affirming sexual assault conviction), cert. denied, 299 Conn. 922, 11 A.3d 151 (2011). Here, the defendant contends that the application of physical force on N's vagina and labia majora was insufficient to support a conviction of sexual assault because there was no evidence that he penetrated N's genital opening.

  3. State v. Gerald A.

    183 Conn. App. 82 (Conn. App. Ct. 2018)   Cited 8 times
    Concluding that court did not abuse its discretion in admitting evidence of domestic violence as uncharged misconduct evidence in child sex abuse case as explanation for delayed disclosure of abuse

    '' (Internal quotation marks omitted.) State v. Elmer G. , 176 Conn. App. 343, 349–50, 170 A.3d 749, cert. granted on other grounds, 327 Conn. 971, 173 A.3d 952 (2017). ''The jury is entitled to draw reasonable and logical inferences from the evidence.

  4. State v. Turner

    181 Conn. App. 535 (Conn. App. Ct. 2018)   Cited 12 times
    Declining to review claim that legally correct response to jury question intruded on function of jury

    " (Internal quotation marks omitted.) State v. Campbell , 328 Conn. 444, 541–42, 180 A.3d 882 (2018) ; see also State v. Elmer G. , 176 Conn. App. 343, 363–64, 170 A.3d 749, cert. granted on other grounds, 327 Conn. 971, 173 A.3d 952 (2017). "[W]hen a defendant raises on appeal a claim that improper remarks by the prosecutor deprived the defendant of his constitutional right to a fair trial, the burden is on the defendant to show ... that the remarks were improper ...."