State v. Delgado

The certified issue in this appeal is whether the trial court abused its discretion in allowing the joinder of the crimes of risk of injury to a child and manslaughter in the first degree with regard to that same child.1 But the issue in this case is, however, more appropriately restated as follows: whether the trial court abused its discretion by joining for trial purposes before a jury, for the purported purpose of “foster[ing] economy and expedition of judicial administration,”2 two counts accusing the defendant, Rafael Delgado, of brutal, shocking and outrageous conduct — in the first…