State v. Cosby

The defendant appeals from the judgment of his conviction, after a jury trial, of attempted *165larceny in the first degree by extortion, in violation of General Statutes §§ 53a-49 (a) and 53a-122, and of larceny in the fourth degree, in violation of General Statutes § 53a-125 (a). The sole issue in this appeal is whether the defendant’s constitutional right of confrontation includes the right to impeach a state’s witness by use of a prior narcotics conviction, so as to afford him an Evans review of the trial court’s preclusion of such impeachment. See State v. Evans, 165 Conn. 61, 327 A.2d 576…