Correia v. Rowland

Opinion

NORCOTT, J.

The principal issue in this appeal is whether the habeas court properly concluded that the petitioner did not have cause for his failure to raise, at his trial and on direct appeal, a claim that his right to due process of law under article first, § 8, of the constitution of Connecticut1 was violated by the state’s failure to preserve potentially useful evidence. The petitioner, Steven Correia, appeals2 from the judgment of the habeas court denying his petition for a writ of *455habeas corpus.3 In this appeal, the petitioner contends that the habeas court improperly: (1)…