Legal Opinion
State v. Williams
Connecticut Appellate Court
Decided April 30, 1996No. 14451PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtO’Connell, J.
The defendant appeals from the judgment of conviction, following a jury trial, of three counts of sale of narcotics in violation of General Statutes § 21a-277 (a). The defendant’s sole claim on appeal is that prosecutorial misconduct deprived him of a fair trial. We reverse the judgment of conviction and order a new trial.
The jury could reasonably have found the following facts. On February 23, 1995, Sergeant Dennis Coyle of the statewide narcotics task force, in conjunction with law enforcement officers from the Waterbury police department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),…
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