Supreme Court of Connecticut
State v. Tomlinson
September 8, 2021340 Conn. 533
Summary
The court affirmed the defendant’s convictions for murder and carrying a pistol without a permit. It held that challenges to gang-related expert testimony and a rap music video were either unpreserved, abandoned, or harmless, and that the trial court properly admitted mirror photographs as party-opponent evidence and a recorded identification as a spontaneous utterance. The court also explained safeguards governing expert reliance on hearsay and potentially prejudicial gang or rap-related evidence.