SC20164 - State v. Juan A.
G.-P. (“On appeal, the defendant claims that the trial court
violated his right to confrontation under the sixth amendment to the United
States constitution by not ordering disclosure of the victims’ psychiatric
records to the defense. The defendant asks this court to conduct an independent
review of those records to determine whether they contain exculpatory or
relevant impeachment material. The defendant further claims that the trial
court violated his confrontation rights by preventing him from questioning the
victims’ mothers about their U visa applications. Lastly, the defendant raises
two unpreserved claims of instructional error. Specifically, he claims that the
trial court improperly (1) instructed the jury that, if the evidence was
subject to two different interpretations, the jury was ‘‘not required to accept
the interpretation consistent with innocence,’’ and (2) failed to instruct the
jury, in accordance with instruction 2.6-11 of Connecticut’s model criminal
jury instructions, that it must consider each count separately and that a
verdict reached on one count does not control the verdict on any other count.”)