State v. Emmanuel C.

Citations

• 233 Conn. App. 156

Syllabus

Convicted, following a jury trial, of risk of injury to a child, the defendant appealed. He claimed, inter alia, that there was insufficient evidence to support his conviction. Held: The evidence was sufficient to support the defendant's conviction because the jury reasonably could have found, on the basis of the evidence presented and the inferences reasonably drawn therefrom, that the defendant engaged in an act of deliberate, blatant abuse that was likely to endanger the victim's physical well-being. This court dismissed as moot the defendant's claim that the trial court erred in denying his motions for a bill of particulars, as the defendant's motions pertained solely to a count of the operative information on which the defen- dant had been acquitted. This court affirmed the trial court's denial of the defendant's motion for a mistrial on the alternative ground that the defendant failed to establish that certain impeachment evidence was suppressed by the prosecutor in violation of Brady v. Maryland (373 U.S. 83), as the defendant failed to point to persuasive evidence that demonstrated that the prosecutor had prior knowl- edge of how the victim would testify and, even if this court assumed that the prosecutor knew prior to trial that the victim's testimony would differ from his previous statements to the police and to others, that information was elicited during the direct examination of the victim and, on the basis of the record, this court could not conclude that the defendant was preju- diced by his lack of knowledge of a portion of the victim's testimony prior to trial. In accordance with our policy of protecting the privacy interests of the victims of the crime of risk of injury to a child, we decline to use the defendant's full name or to identify the victim or others through whom the victim's identity may be ascertained. See General Statutes § 54-86e. Moreover, in accordance with federal law; see 18 U.S.C. § 2265 (d) (3) (2018), as amended by the Violence