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State v. Coney

Citations

  • 266 Conn. 787
  • 835 A.2d 977
  • 2003 Conn. LEXIS 489

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  • harm from improper question on cross-examination was immediately cured when trial court sustained defense counsel’s objection
  • ‘‘[a]lthough prosecutors are bound by con- stitutional constraints and the restraints of adversarial propriety, they are not shackled by the chains of inade- quate advocacy’’
  • credibility of defendant who testifies subject to scrutiny and close examination
  • credibility of defendant who testifies subject to scrutiny and close examination
  • ‘‘[w]e have declined . . . to find prejudice in instances in which a defendant can do no more than offer mere conjecture or rank speculation as to the harm flowing from a denial of a continuance’’

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Judges: Norcott

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