Supreme Court of Connecticut

State v. Wade

April 22, 2025351 Conn. 745

Summary

The court held that the defendant did not abandon his due process request for a balancing of his confrontation interest against the state's reasons for not producing an unavailable witness and the reliability of the witness's identification. Because the trial court admitted and relied on the identification without performing that balancing, the court ordered a new probation revocation hearing limited to the alleged home invasion, while leaving the other probation violations undisturbed.