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Habeas Appellate Court Opinion

by Townsend, Karen

 

AC41947 - Ruiz v. Commissioner of Correction (Charge of sexual assault in the first degree and fourth degree; risk of injury to child; “On appeal, the petitioner claims that the court improperly concluded that his right to effective assistance of counsel was not violated by the performance of his trial counsel in challenging the reliability of the state’s witness at a pretrial hearing on the state’s motion in limine seeking permission to videotape the testimony of the child victim, N, in the petitioner’s absence pursuant to State v. Jarzbek, 204 Conn. 683, 529 A.2d 1245 (1987), cert. denied, 484 U.S. 1061, 108 S. Ct. 1017, 98 L. Ed. 2d 982 (1988). We affirm the judgment of the habeas court”).