State v. Gomes

STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. WAGNER GOMES (SC 20407) Robinson, C. J., and McDonald, D’Auria, Mullins, Ecker and Keller, Js. Syllabus Convicted of the crime of assault in the second degree, the defendant appealed to the Appellate Court, claiming that the trial court had deprived him of his right to present a defense of investigative inadequacy by omitting from its jury instructions certain language in his written request to charge stating that the jury could consider evidence of the police investigation as it might relate to any weaknesses in the state’s case. At trial, the defendant contended that…