Supreme Court of Connecticut
State v. Haynes
July 1, 2025352 Conn. 236
Summary
The court affirmed the defendant’s murder conviction and rejected three claims concerning impeachment use of a Miranda-violative statement, admission of photographs, and late disclosure of a witness. It declined to overrule its established rule allowing a voluntary statement suppressed from the prosecution’s case-in-chief to be used for impeachment, held that the photographs had an independent lawful source, and concluded that admitting the late-disclosed witness did not constitute an abuse of discretion.