State v. James G.’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 141 state decisions

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1. “With respect to a trial court's consideration of whether to allow a defendant access to requested confidential materials, [our Supreme Court has] held that, upon a proper showing and after an in camera review, [a]ccess to confidential records should be left to the discretion of the trial court which is better able to assess the probative value of such evidence as it relates to the particular case before it ... and to weigh that value against the interest in confidentiality of the records.... When a defendant seeks access to confidential records for impeachment purposes, the trial court must determine whether [the records] sufficiently disclose material especially probative of the [witness'] ability to comprehend, know, and correctly relate the truth .... Moreover, [our Supreme Court] has held that [t]he determination of materiality ... [is] inevitably fact-bound and like other factual issues is committed to the trial court in the first instance.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 171 Conn. App. 530 - State v. Carlos P.

2. “We previously have held that the process of balancing probative value and prejudicial effect is critical to the determination of whether other crime [s] evidence is admissible.... At the same time, however, we ... do not ... requir[e] a trial court to use some talismanic phraseology in order to satisfy this balancing process. Rather ... in order for this test to be satisfied, a reviewing court must be able to infer from the entire record that the trial court considered the prejudicial effect of the evidence against its probative nature before making a ruling.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Devon D.

3. “[t]he primary responsibility for conducting the balancing test to determine whether the evidence is more probative than prejudicial rests with the trial court, and its conclusion will be disturbed only for a manifest abuse of discretion.... [Thus, our] review of such rulings is limited to the questions of whether the trial court correctly applied the law and [whether it] reasonably could have reached the conclusion that it did.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 166 Conn. App. 142 - State v. Leniart