Opinion
10-15-2019
STATE of Connecticut v. Javier Valentin PORFIL
James B. Streeto, senior assistant public defender, in support of the petition. Laurie N. Feldman, special deputy assistant state's attorney, in opposition.
James B. Streeto, senior assistant public defender, in support of the petition.
Laurie N. Feldman, special deputy assistant state's attorney, in opposition.
The defendant's petition for certification to appeal from the Appellate Court, 191 Conn. App. 494, 215 A.3d 161 (2019), is granted, limited to the following issue:
"Did the Appellate Court correctly conclude that the evidence of constructive possession was sufficient to sustain the defendant's conviction of possession of narcotics and possession of narcotics with intent to sell by a person who is not drug-dependent, when the narcotics that formed the basis for the conviction were found in a common area over which the defendant did not have exclusive possession?"
MULLINS, J., did not participate in the consideration of or decision on this petition.