Hickey v. Comm'r of Corr.

**607The sole issue in this certified appeal is whether a criminal defendant received the effective assistance of counsel at his trial when his attorney failed to request (1) a limiting instruction contemporaneous with testimony about prior, uncharged sexual misconduct, and (2) the inclusion of language in the trial court's final charge limiting the use of that testimony to the issue of propensity. The respondent, the Commissioner of Correction (commissioner), appeals, upon our grant of his petition for certification, from the judgment of the Appellate Court, which remanded the case to the…