Rivera v. Commissioner of Correction

Opinion

The petitioner, Freddy Rivera, was convicted of sexual assault in the first degree after a jury trial and we affirmed the conviction in State v. Rivera, 30 Conn. App. 523, 621 A.2d 298 (1993), aff'd, 228 Conn. 756, 638 A.2d 34 (1994). Thereafter, he filed a petition for habeas corpus alleging that his trial counsel furnished ineffective assistance. The habeas court dismissed the petition and Rivera appeals from that judgment on the sole ground that the habeas court improperly refused to review the entire transcript of *337the petitioner’s criminal trial.1 We disagree with the petitioner’s…