381 A.2d 239 | Conn. Super. Ct. | 1977
The defendant, pursuant to the sixth and fourteenth amendments to the federal constitution, moves that the state be required to provide *153 the defense with a written statement listing the nature, date and place of any criminal offenses or acts of misconduct, other than those charged in the present information and those offered for impeachment purposes, which the state will attempt to prove at the trial.
Ordinarily proof of guilt of crimes other than those charged is inadmissible to prove guilt of the crime charged. State v. Harris,
The issue presented is whether the sixth and fourteenth amendments require that the state provide to the defendant pretrial notice of its intent to use such evidence. There are two decisions of courts of final jurisdiction which have ruled that the state must provide the notice requested. They are State v. Prieur,
The motion is granted as indicated.