State v. Aillon

The principal issue in this case is the propriety of several trial court rulings arising out of the alleged unavailability of an expert witness for the defense. The defendant, Guillermo Aillon, was charged by three separate indictments with having committed three murders in violation of General Statutes § 53a-54.1 Two previous trials on these charges failed to result in a conclusive judgment of either conviction or acquittal. In the present third trial, a jury found him guilty on each of the indictments and the trial court, Hadden, J., sentenced him to three consecutive terms of imprisonment…