State v. Adams

The sole issue in this certified appeal is whether the Appellate Court properly upheld, as an exercise of the trial court’s discretion, the court’s ruling that limited cross-examination of a prosecution witness for motive and bias. The defendant, Tyrone Adams, was convicted, after a jury trial, of two counts of aiding and abetting manslaughter in the first degree in violation of General Statutes §§ 53a-8 and 53a-55 (a) (1).1 The Appellate Court affirmed the judgment; State v. Adams, 36 Conn. App. 473, 651 A.2d 747 (1994); and we granted the defendant’s petition for certification, limited to…