State v. McFarland

STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. WILLIE MCFARLAND (SC 20802) Mullins, C. J., and McDonald, D’Auria, Ecker, Alexander and Dannehy, Js. Syllabus Convicted of two counts of murder, the defendant appealed to this court. Although the murders occurred in 1987, the case remained unresolved until scientific advancements in DNA testing led to new findings that resulted in the defendant’s arrest in 2019. In a pretrial motion to dismiss the murder charges, which the trial court denied, the defendant claimed that the thirty- two year delay between the murders and his arrest violated his rights under the due…