The court upheld the $20 million bond as a reasonable exercise of the trial court's discretion given the defendant's extraordinary flight risk, the seriousness of the charged homicide, and evidence of evasive conduct and financial resources.
Supreme Court of Connecticut, 2022
Published opinions from 2022. The case name opens the case page.
2022 opinions
ConnecticutBoard of Education v. Commission on Human Rights & Opportunities
September 6, 2022344 Conn. 603
The court affirmed the judgment upholding a human rights referee's determination that the commission could identify an ADA violation as the factual predicate for a state-law discrimination violation.
The court affirmed the murder judgment after concluding that defense counsel's prior brief representation of the victim's son did not create an actual conflict that adversely affected the defendant's representation.
The court affirmed the defendant’s convictions, holding that lay testimony identifying a person in surveillance footage or photographs is not inadmissible merely because it bears on an ultimate issue.