State v. James A.
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The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the trial court joining for trial, pursuant to Practice Book 41-19, sexual assault, risk of injury to a child, and strangulation charges with threatening and disorderly conduct charges, holding that the trial court did not err or abuse its discretion.
Specifically, the Supreme Court held that the trial court did not abuse its discretion when it (1) joined the sexual assault cases and the threatening and disorderly conduct cases for trial; and (2) denied Defendant's request, as a remedy for the disclosure of his prior incarceration by one of the state’s witnesses, that he be allowed to testify about the nonsexual nature of his prior felony convictions without opening the door to being asked on cross-examination about the nature of those convictions.
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