State v. Barnes

The sole issue in this certified appeal1 is whether the trial court improperly precluded the defendant, Lamont Barnes, from eliciting on cross-examination testimony that allegedly would have demonstrated that the victim of the defendant’s alleged larceny had a motive to fabricate his testimony, thereby violating the defendant’s rights to confrontation and *742to present a defense under the sixth and fourteenth amendments to the United States constitution. The defendant was convicted, after a jury trial, of larceny in the third degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-124 (a) (2).2 The…