Supreme Court of Connecticut
State v. Villanueva
July 15, 2025352 Conn. 439
Summary
The court affirmed the defendant’s convictions, rejecting his claims concerning the requested investigative-inadequacy instruction, the admission of an eyewitness identification, and testimony from a substitute medical examiner. The investigative-inadequacy instruction was unsupported by evidence and partly unpreserved; the identification procedure was not unnecessarily suggestive; and the medical examiner’s testimony based on autopsy photographs did not violate confrontation principles, while any improperly admitted additional testimony was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.