Opinion
10-04-2016
STATE of Connecticut v. Michael Anthony GUERRERA
John L. Cordani, Jr., in support of the petition. Jonathan M. Sousa, special deputy assistant state's attorney, in opposition.
John L. Cordani, Jr., in support of the petition.
Jonathan M. Sousa, special deputy assistant state's attorney, in opposition.
The defendant's petition for certification for appeal from the Appellate Court, 167 Conn.App. 74, 142 A.3d 447 (2016), is granted, limited to the following issue:
"Did the Appellate Court properly find that the state's attorney's obligation to review its own investigatory file for Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83, 87, 83 S.Ct. 1194, 10 L.Ed.2d 215 (1963), material only applies where the defendant can first make a ‘showing’ that the file contains exculpatory information?"