State v. DeJesus

The Connecticut Code of Evidence (code) is a judicial codification of general rules of prospective application. These rules are the functional equivalent of laws. The judges of the Superior Court, a title that the justices of this court and the judges of the Appellate Court also hold, adopted the code in the exercise of their heretofore unquestioned rule-making authority in matters of procedure. Nonetheless, the majority1 concludes that, “despite the adoption of the code by the judges of the Superior Court, the appellate courts of this state retain the authority to develop and change the…