State v. Melendez

How courts have described this case

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• claim that consciousness of guilt instruction, as given, was inappropriate not renewable when counsel objected only generally to charge and not to actual instruction after it was given
• when defendant objected generally to giving jury instruction on consciousness of guilt but did not object to wording of charge actually given, claim of instructional error was not preserved
• “[i]t is axiomatic that a factfinder may infer an intent to kill from circumstantial evidence such as the type of weapon used, the manner in which it was used, the type of wound inflicted and the events leading to and immediately following the death” [internal quotation marks omitted]
• \[T]he defendant's fleeing the scene [of the murder] and subsequent flight to Puerto Rico are evidence of his consciousness of guilt. 'We have in the past considered consciousness of guilt evidence as part of the evidence from which a jury may draw an inference of an intent to kill.' \

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2008-08-05· cited 62×
• Lin v. National Railroad Passenger Corp.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2006-01-31· cited 20×
• Melendez v. Commissioner of Correction
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2013-04-09· cited 18×
• State v. Lindo
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2003-03-11· cited 13×
• State v. Aaron L.
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2003-09-16· cited 12×
• Kos v. Lawrence + Memorial Hospital
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2020-03-10· cited 10×
• State v. Robinson
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2010-12-14· cited 7×
• State v. Terry
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2015-12-22

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Delaware v. Van Arsdall
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-07· cited 7,102×
• State v. Whistnant
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1980-02-12· cited 230×
• State v. Sivri
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1994-08-23· cited 184×
• State v. Hines
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1998-03-03· cited 182×
• State v. Pinnock
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1992-01-14· cited 150×
• State v. Greenfield
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1993-12-07· cited 117×
• State v. Reid
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1984-07-17· cited 108×
• State v. Francis
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1993-12-14· cited 79×
• State v. Cerreta
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2002-05-21· cited 67×
• State v. DeJesus
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1996-03-05· cited 54×
• State v. Montanez
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1991-05-28· cited 50×
• State v. Small
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1997-07-29· cited 47×
• Mazzucco v. Krall Coal & Oil Co.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1977-02-08· cited 40×
• State v. Patterson
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1994-05-03· cited 40×
• State v. Ray
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1993-12-21· cited 20×
• State v. Best
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2000-02-29· cited 18×
• State v. Abernathy
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2002-10-15· cited 16×
• State v. Solek
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2001-10-02· cited 14×
• State v. Pitt
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1992-09-01· cited 11×
• State v. Hallowell
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2001-01-23· cited 8×