State v. Stephenson
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The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the appellate court, which reversed the judgment of the trial court convicting Defendant of burglary in the third degree and other offenses in connection with a break-in, holding that the appellate court improperly addressed an issue of evidentiary sufficiency sua sponte without calling for supplemental briefing, as required by Blumberg Associates Worldwide, Inc. v. Brown & Brown of Connecticut, Inc., 84 A.3d 840 (Conn. 2014).
On appeal, the appellate court reversed Defendant's conviction for tampering with physical evidence, concluding that there was insufficient evidence for the jury to have reasonably concluded that Defendant intended to tamper with the evidence at issue. In reaching its decision, the appellate court recognized that the issue was distinct from Defendant's sufficiency argument on appeal. The Supreme Court reversed, holding that the appellate court violated the mandate in Blumberg by raising a different claim of evidentiary sufficiency sua sponte, without calling for supplemental briefing from the parties.
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