State v. Wade

STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. JAQUAN WADE (SC 20983) Mullins, C. J., and McDonald, D’Auria, Ecker and Dannehy, Js. Syllabus In accordance with the Appellate Court’s decision in State v. Crespo ( 190 Conn. App. 639), the due process right to confront adverse witnesses at a probation revocation hearing is not absolute but, rather, is determined by application of a balancing test, pursuant to which a court weighs the defen- dant’s interest in confronting the witness against the state’s reasons for not producing the witness and the reliability of the proffered evidence. The defendant appealed, on the…