State v. Khadijah
Decision Date | 20 November 2007 |
Docket Number | No. 17801.,17801. |
Citation | 934 A.2d 241,284 Conn. 429 |
Court | Connecticut Supreme Court |
Parties | STATE of Connecticut v. Ayanna KHADIJAH. |
John A. East III, senior assistant state's attorney, with whom, on the brief, were David I. Cohen, state's attorney, and Suzanne M. Vieux, assistant state's attorney, for the appellant (state).
Mary Anne Royle, special public defender, for the appellee (defendant).
KATZ, PALMER, VERTEFEUILLE, ZARELLA and SCHALLER, Js.
The state appeals, following our grant of its petition for certification,1 from the judgment of the Appellate Court reversing the judgment of conviction, rendered after a jury trial, of the defendant, Ayanna Khadijah, of failure to appear in the first degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-172 (a)(1).2 State v Khadijah, 98 Conn.App. 409, 909 A.2d 65 (2006). On appeal, the state claims that the Appellate Court improperly concluded that, based on the facts of this case, there was insufficient evidence from which the jury could have concluded beyond a reasonable doubt that one of the elements of § 53a-172 (a)(1), namely, "wilfully fails to appear," was proven. See id., at 419, 909 A.2d 65.
After examining the entire record on appeal and considering the briefs and oral arguments of the parties, we have determined that the appeal in this case should be dismissed on the ground that certification was improvidently granted.
The appeal is dismissed.
1. We granted the state's petition for certification to appeal, limited to the following issue: "Did the Appellate...
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