Supreme Court of Connecticut
State v. Ashby
August 6, 2020336 Conn. 452
Summary
The court held that the state violated the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to counsel by using a jailhouse informant who was fairly attributable to the state to deliberately elicit incriminating statements, requiring a new trial on all counts. The court also rejected the defendant's challenge to the burglary conviction under the governing interpretation of unlawful remaining, but held that the trial court abused its discretion by refusing a third-party culpability instruction supported by unidentified male DNA evidence.