Jones v. State
Supreme Court of Connecticut
1Opinion of the CourtD'Auria, J.
*537Opinion **86In October, 1990, the petitioner, Melvin Jones, was arrested and charged with the murder of **87Wayne Curtis, who had been found shot to death in New Haven just a few days before the petitioner's arrest. The case was tried to a jury, which found the petitioner guilty. Nearly twenty years after the crime occurred, in 2010, certain pieces of evidence from the petitioner's trial were tested for the presence of DNA pursuant to an agreement with the state. He later relied on that testing to petition for a new trial on the basis of newly discovered evidence. In his petition, he claimed…
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