T.J.N. v. State

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• holding that court did not abuse discretion in concluding that anonymous letter to newspaper editor did not establish good faith basis for cross-examining witness regarding his alleged prior misconduct
• noting that the rule allowing allocution and the death penalty sentencing statutes were both silent regarding a defendant's right to allocution before the death penalty jury and relying on the legislature's specificity for the procedures in the capital sentencing scheme
• rejecting a capital defendant’s claim that the denial of allocution before a death penalty jury violated equal protection
• examining common-law right of allocution to determine extent of right of allocution provided by Practice Book provision
• examining common-law right of allocution to determine extent of right of allocution provided by Practice Book § 43-10 [3]
• rejecting claim that state constitution provides for right of allocution at capital sentencing hearing

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