State v. Jones

The defendant appeals from the judgment of conviction, rendered after a jury trial, of aiding and abetting the sale of narcotics in violation of General Statutes §§ 21a-278 (b) and 53a-8. He claims that the trial court improperly (1) refused to strike the entire testimony of the state’s key witness pursuant to Practice Book § 755 and General Statutes § 54-86b,1 (2) determined that the prosecutor struck the first two minority jurors for neutral reasons, and then refused to seat those two jurors when it later determined that the prosecutor engaged in purposeful discrimination, and (3)…