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State v. Payne

Citations

  • 34 A.3d 370
  • 303 Conn. 538
  • 2012 WL 119864
  • 2012 Conn. LEXIS 15

How courts have described this case

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  • adopting new approach to joinder of criminal trials under rules of practice and noting that it will not apply retroactively on collateral review
  • overruling State v. King, 187 Conn. 292, 445 A.2d 901 [1982], ‘‘and its progeny,’’ and overruling in part State v. Tomas D., 296 Conn. 476, 995 A.2d 583 [2010]
  • defendant’s due process rights were not violated when prosecutor’s statements were isolated and occurred within lengthy closing argument
  • defendant’s due process rights not violated when prosecutor’s improper remarks were brief and confined to closing argument
  • ‘‘[w]hen an error is not of constitutional magnitude, the defendant bears the burden of demonstrating that the error was harmful’’
  • trial court cured any harm by instructing jury that arguments of counsel were not evidence on which jurors could rely

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Judges: Rogers, Palmer, Zarella, McLachlan, Eveleigh, Harper, Vertefeuiue

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