State v. Menzies
| Decision Date | 09 April 1992 |
| Citation | 608 A.2d 690,221 Conn. 924 |
| Court | Connecticut Supreme Court |
| Parties | STATE of Connecticut v. James MENZIES. |
Ramona Stilley Carlow and Glenn D. Woods, Hartford, in support of the petition.
Rita M. Shair, Asst. State's Atty., in opposition.
The defendant's petition for certification for appeal from the Appellate Court, 26 Conn.App. 674, 603 A.2d 419, is denied.
I would grant the defendant's petition for certification in order for this court to review the following issues:
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State v. Correa
...jury's attention to the failure of the accused to testify. State v. Menzies, 26 Conn.App. 674, 696, 603 A.2d 419, cert. denied, 221 Conn. 924, 608 A.2d 690 (1992) (Berdon, J., dissenting from denial of certiorari)." State v. Arline, 223 Conn. 52, 66-67, 612 A.2d 755 During his opening summa......
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State v. Arline
...attention to the failure of the accused to testify. State v. Menzies, 26 Conn. App. 674, 696, 603 A.2d 419, cert. denied, 221 Conn. 924, 608 A.2d 690 (1992) (Berdon, J., dissenting from denial of certiorari). Furthermore, "a prosecutor is prohibited from asking for explanations which only a......
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State v. Ruffin
...indirect comment on the defendant's failure to testify.” State v. Menzies, 26 Conn.App. 674, 696, 603 A.2d 419, cert. denied, 221 Conn. 924, 608 A.2d 690 (1992); see also State v. DeMartino, 7 Conn.App. 292, 295, 508 A.2d 809 (1986). In this case, during the prosecutor's initial closing arg......
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State v. Green
...the right to confront the witnesses against him." State v. Menzies, 26 Conn. App. 674, 684, 603 A.2d 419, cert. denied, 221 Conn. 924, 608 A.2d 690 (1992). "The denial or undue restriction of the right to confrontation constitutes constitutional error. Davis v. Alaska, [supra, 415 U.S. 318]......
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