State v. Miranda

The defendant, Pedro L. Miranda, appeals 1 from the judgment of conviction, rendered after a jury trial, of one count of murder in violation of General Statutes § 53a-54a. On appeal, the defendant claims that the trial court improperly, (1) failed to strike the testimony of a witness who claimed that guidance from God, rather than his own recollection, had led him to identify the perpetrator in a photographic array, after the court ruled, in the jury's absence, that this testimony was inadmissible, and (2) permitted the victim's mother to testify that she had heard that the defendant was…