SANCHEZ v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION

No. 19080.

103 A.3d 954 (2014)

314 Conn. 585

Jorge SANCHEZ v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided December 2, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Culkin , assigned counsel, for the appellant (petitioner).

Linda Currie-Zeffiro , assistant state's attorney, with whom, on the brief, were John C. Smriga , state's attorney, and Gerard Eisenman , former senior assistant state's attorney, for the appellee (respondent).

ROGERS, C.J., and PALMER, ZARELLA, EVELEIGH, McDONALD, ESPINOSA and ROBINSON, Js.


The dispositive issue raised by this appeal is whether the habeas petitioner, Jorge Sanchez, has demonstrated that he received ineffective assistance of counsel at his criminal trial for murder and other offenses because his counsel failed to call two witnesses whose testimony would have contradicted that of an important state's witness...

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