Supreme Court of Connecticut
State v. Pascual
June 5, 2012305 Conn. 82
Summary
The court affirmed the defendant’s convictions, concluding that any error in admitting testimony about a threat communicated to the victim and in instructing the jury concerning that evidence was harmless. The threat was irrelevant to the attempted sexual assault conviction because the jury was required to consider the defendant’s, not the victim’s, state of mind, and the kidnapping convictions were supported by overwhelming independent evidence of force, intimidation, and restraint.