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Criminal Law Appellate Court Opinions

by Townsend, Karen

 

AC45529 - Reyes v. State (“On appeal, the petitioner claims that the trial court (1) abused its discretion in denying his petition for certification to appeal, (2) improperly determined that his newly discovered third-party culpability evidence would probably not produce a different result in a new trial, and (3) improperly determined that the state did not suppress his newly discovered impeachment evidence in violation of Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83, 87, 83 S. Ct. 1194, 10 L. Ed. 2d 215 (1963). We disagree and, therefore, dismiss the appeal.”)

AC45634 - Reyes v. State (“On appeal, the petitioner claims that the trial court improperly (1) concluded, as a matter of law, that the three year limitation period of § 52-582 cannot be tolled by application of the fraudulent concealment statute, General Statutes § 52-595,2 and (2) determined that the exception to the three year limitation period for newly discovered forensic scientific evidence pursuant to § 52-582 (a) was not applicable to the present case. We agree with the petitioner’s first claim but disagree with his second claim. Accordingly, we affirm in part and reverse in part the judgment of the trial court, and we remand the case to the trial court for a new evidentiary hearing before a different judge to determine whether the three year limitation period of § 52-582 was tolled by § 52-595.”)