Legal Opinion

Channer v. State

Connecticut Appellate Court

Decided August 24, 1999No. AC 17857PublishedCited by 10 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion

LAVERY, J.

The petitioner, Claudious W. Channer, appeals from the judgment of the trial court denying his petition for a new trial. On appeal, the petitioner claims that the trial court improperly (1) found that the witnesses’ recantations were not credible and that the petitioner failed to meet his burden of proving the validity of the claimed misidentification of him, and (2) applied the wrong standard in reviewing his claim. We affirm the judgment of the trial court.

The following facts are pertinent to this appeal. On June 12, 1988, Delroy Lewis and his fiancee, Dawn *622Jones, were…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Larrison v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1928
  2. Berry v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1851
  3. Asherman v. StateSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1987
  4. State v. ChannerConnecticut Appellate Court · 1992
  5. Pradlik v. StateSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1945

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3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Giulietti v. GiuliettiConnecticut Appellate Court · 2001
  2. Shabazz v. StateSupreme Court of Connecticut · 2002
  3. Gould v. Commissioner of CorrectionSupreme Court of Connecticut · 2011
  4. Claudious W. Channer v. Warden Leslie E. BrooksCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2003
  5. Morant v. StateConnecticut Appellate Court · 2002

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