Supreme Court of Connecticut
State v. Maharg
July 8, 2025352 Conn. 355
Summary
The court affirmed the defendant’s murder conviction. It held that the defendant’s unpreserved claim that his suppressed station-house confession tainted expert testimony and the trial proceedings was unreviewable because the record was inadequate under the first prong of the applicable constitutional-claim review framework. The court further held that any error in admitting the defendant’s hospital confession was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt because the trial court did not rely on it and the remaining forensic and circumstantial evidence independently established guilt.