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STATE v. DROUIN

(4773), (4832)

12 Conn. App. 101 (1987)

STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. ROBERT DROUIN

Appellate Court of Connecticut.

Decision released August 18, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Austin J. McGuigan, with whom were Lisa J. Barry and M. Daniel Friedland, for the appellant (defendant in both cases).

Susann E. Gill, deputy assistant state's attorney, with whom, on the brief, were Carl Taylor, assistant state's attorney, and Cheryl Petrucci, law student intern, for the appellee (state).

HULL, SPALLONE and COVELLO, Js.

COVELLO, J.

The dispositive issue in this case is whether the circumstances, length and content of the court's examination of the defendant before the jury constituted error. We conclude that it did and order a new trial.1

On June 2, 1985, police officers stopped the defendant in his automobile in response to a complaint by a former girlfriend that the accused was harassing her. In the course of taking him into custody, a scuffle...

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