State v. Myers

STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. CORNEL MYERS (SC 20799) Mullins, C. J., and McDonald, D’Auria, Ecker, Alexander, Dannehy and Moll, Js. Syllabus Convicted of murder in connection with the stabbing death of the victim, the defendant’s former girlfriend, the defendant appealed to this court. Prior to trial, the trial court denied in part the defendant’s motion to introduce third-party culpability evidence relating to the victim’s neighbor, A. The trial court specifically excluded a video that A had sent to the victim and related text messages, a voicemail that A had left for his girlfriend after the…