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Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2/3/2009

State v. Myers

Citations

  • 963 A.2d 11
  • 290 Conn. 278
  • 2009 Conn. LEXIS 15

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  • explaining that plain error doctrine ‘‘is an extraordinary remedy used by appellate courts to rectify errors committed at trial that, although unpreserved, are of such monumental proportion that they threaten to erode our system of justice’’ (emphasis added)
  • although plain error doctrine is rule of reversibility, not of review-ability, predicates to consideration of such claims are adequate record and determination of whether record reflects plain error
  • ‘‘[a] trial court’s failure to comply with a rule of criminal procedure, without more, is insufficient to require reversal for plain error’’
  • plain error is ‘‘patent [or] readily discernable on the face of a factually adequate record, [and] also . . . obvious in the sense of not debat- able’’ [internal quotation marks omitted]
  • appellant cannot prevail under plain error doctrine ‘‘unless he demon- strates that the claimed error is so clear and so harmful that failure to reverse the judgment would result in manifest injustice’’
  • “[an appellant] cannot prevail under [the plain error doctrine] . . . unless he demonstrates that the claimed error is both so clear and so harmful that a failure to reverse the judgment would result in manifest injustice” [internal quotation marks omitted]

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Judges: Norcott, Katz, Vertefeuille, Zarella, Schaller

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