Opinion
05-02-2018
STATE of Connecticut v. Eugene L. WALKER
Damian K. Gunningsmith and John L. Cordani, Jr., New Haven, in support of the petition. Timothy J. Sugrue, assistant state's attorney, in opposition.
The defendant's petition for certification to appeal from the Appellate Court, 180 Conn.App. 291, 183 A.3d 1 (2018), is granted, limited to the following issue:
"Did the Appellate Court properly determine that the defendant's sixth amendment right to confrontation was not violated by testimony from a lab analyst regarding a known DNA profile generated from a swab processed by another analyst who did not testify at trial?"
KAHN, J., did not participate in the consideration of or decision on this petition.