Woods v. Comm'r of Corr.

• Decision Date: 15 December 2021
• Docket Number: SC 20487
• Citation: Woods v. Comm'r of Corr., 341 Conn. 506, 267 A.3d 193(Mem) (Conn. 2021)
• Parties: Jermaine WOODS v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION
• Court: Connecticut Supreme Court

341 Conn. 506

267 A.3d 193 (Mem)

Jermaine WOODS

v.COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION

SC 20487

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Argued October 21, 2021

Officially released December 15, 2021^*

Vishal K. Garg, for the appellant (petitioner).

Ronald G. Weller, senior assistant state's attorney, with whom, on the brief, were Nancy L. Walker, assistant state's attorney, Maureen Platt, state's attorney, and Eva Lenczewski, supervisory assistant state's attorney.

Robinson, C. J., and McDonald, D'Auria, Mullins, Kahn and Ecker, Js.

PER CURIAM.

The petitioner, Jermaine Woods, appeals, upon our grant of his petition for certification,¹ from the judgment of the Appellate Court dismissing his appeal from the judgment of the habeas court, which dismissed his third petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Woods v. Commissioner of Correction , 197 Conn. App. 597, 599–600, 232 A.3d 63 (2020). On appeal, the petitioner contends that the Appellate Court improperly construed his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, which he had filed as a self-represented party, in concluding that it did not raise a claim that counsel at the petitioner's second habeas trial, which was held in 2011, provided ineffective assistance by not challenging the failure of defense counsel at his 2006 murder trial to present evidence as to his diminished capacity.

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.

* December 15, 2021, the date that this decision was released as a slip opinion,...