178 Conn. App. 16 - State v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis

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12 state decisions

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1. “Generally, a defendant is not entitled to an instruction singling out any of the state's witnesses and highlighting his or her possible motive for testifying falsely.... An exception to this rule, however, involves the credibility of accomplice witnesses.... [W]here it is warranted by the evidence, it is the court's duty to caution the jury to scrutinize carefully the testimony if the jury finds that the witness intentionally assisted in the commission, or if he assisted or aided or abetted in the commission, of the offense with which the defendant is charged.... The court's duty to so charge is implicated only where the trial court has before it sufficient evidence to make a determination that there is evidence that the witness was in fact an accomplice.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 180 Conn. App. 205 - State v. Soyini

2. “To prevail under the first prong of a plain error analysis, an appellant must demonstrate that the alleged error is obvious in the sense of not debatable.... [T]his inquiry entails a relatively high standard, under which it is not enough for the [appellant] simply to demonstrate that his position is correct. Rather, the [appellant] must demonstrate that the claimed impropriety was so clear, obvious and indisputable as to warrant the extraordinary remedy of reversal.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 179 Conn. App. 345 - State v. Outlaw

3. “With respect to the first prong, the claimed error must be patent [or] readily [discernible] on the face of a factually adequate record, [and] also ... obvious in the sense of not debatable.... With respect to the second prong, an appellant must demonstrate that the failure to grant relief will result in manifest injustice.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 179 Conn. App. 345 - State v. Outlaw