State v. Pascucci

The defendant, Albert Paseueei, was convicted by a jury of the crime of inciting to riot at a state correctional institution in violation of § 53-167a of the General Statutes. The court denied his motion to set aside the verdict as contrary to the law and the evidence and the defendant has appealed from the judgment rendered on the verdict, pressing three assignments of error. In the order in which we will consider them, the first claim is that the court erred in excluding testimony by the defendant as to certain disciplinary action taken against him following the incident for which he was on…