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Habeas Appellate Court Opinion

by Townsend, Karen

 

AC40933 - Bree v. Commissioner of Correction (" On appeal, the petitioner claims that the habeas court erred in ruling that his trial counsel did not render ineffective assistance by failing (1) to consult with and to present testimony from an expert in audio-video forensics to challenge the reliability of closed-circuit television surveillance video evidence used by the state to identify him as the perpetrator in one of the robberies; (2) to timely object to and move to strike the nonresponsive testimony of the petitioner’s alleged accomplice, Gabriel Santiago, identifying the petitioner’s photograph in a photographic array as that of a perpetrator of another of the underlying robberies; and (3) to present the testimony of the petitioner’s stepfather, Ronald Riebling, to bolster exculpatory testimony from his wife, Sue Riebling, the petitioner’s mother. We disagree with the petitioner’s claims and, therefore, affirm the judgment of the habeas court.")