State of Connecticut v. Dustin Ruocco.

Summary

The court affirmed the Appellate Court's reversal of the defendant's burglary and larceny convictions. It held that, even assuming the complete omission of the statutorily required no-adverse-inference instruction was subject to harmless-error review, the state failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the omission was harmless because the evidence included credibility disputes, an alibi defense, and only one eyewitness to the theft.