State v. Osimanti

How courts have described this case

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• ‘‘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)
• initial aggressor must withdraw or abandon conflict in such way that adversary is aware that he is no longer in any danger from initial aggressor
• no abuse of discretion analysis conducted when concluding that trial court’s eviden- tiary rulings were harmless
• evidentiary Page 28 CONNECTICUT LAW JOURNAL 0, 0 30 ,0 0 Conn. App. 1 State v. Calderon-Perez claims were nonconstitutional because defendant was permitted to present other evidence to support defense theory
• reviewing summations to discern significant factual issues in case
• no violation of right to confrontation where defendant was permitted to present alternative evi- dence by way of cross-examination in support of his claim of self-defense and was able to refer to and emphasize that evidence in closing argument to jury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).