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Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2/17/2009

State v. Beavers

Citations

  • 963 A.2d 956
  • 290 Conn. 386
  • 2009 Conn. LEXIS 19

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  • finding significant “that the prior misconduct evidence admitted involved only the defendant’s actual, claimed or threatened damage of property for personal gain, as compared to the charged crime in the present case, which contemplated the intentional killing of a person for financial reasons”
  • \[a] nonconstitutional error is harmless when an appellate court has a fair assurance that the error did not substantially affect the verdict\ [internal quotation marks omitted]
  • “[a] nonconstitu-tional error is harmless when an appellate court has a fair assurance that the error did not substantially affect the verdict” [internal quotation marks omitted]
  • by excluding ‘‘most egregious and prejudicial uncharged misconduct,’’ trial court did not abuse its discretion when it admitted uncharged misconduct evidence
  • “[T]he trial court emphasized during its charge that the experts’ conclusions were not binding on the jury, which could disregard them either in whole or in part.”
  • “[T]he trial court emphasized during its charge that the experts’ conclusions were not binding on the jury, which could disregard them either in whole or in part.”

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Judges: Norcott, Katz, Vertefeuille, Zarella, Scháuer

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