State v. Reddick

CourtConnecticut Appellate Court
DecidedSeptember 23, 2014
DocketAC35018
StatusPublished

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State v. Reddick, (Colo. Ct. App. 2014).

Opinion

****************************************************** The ‘‘officially released’’ date that appears near the beginning of each opinion is the date the opinion will be published in the Connecticut Law Journal or the date it was released as a slip opinion. The operative date for the beginning of all time periods for filing postopinion motions and petitions for certification is the ‘‘officially released’’ date appearing in the opinion. In no event will any such motions be accepted before the ‘‘officially released’’ date. All opinions are subject to modification and technical correction prior to official publication in the Connecti- cut Reports and Connecticut Appellate Reports. In the event of discrepancies between the electronic version of an opinion and the print version appearing in the Connecticut Law Journal and subsequently in the Con- necticut Reports or Connecticut Appellate Reports, the latest print version is to be considered authoritative. The syllabus and procedural history accompanying the opinion as it appears on the Commission on Official Legal Publications Electronic Bulletin Board Service and in the Connecticut Law Journal and bound volumes of official reports are copyrighted by the Secretary of the State, State of Connecticut, and may not be repro- duced and distributed without the express written per- mission of the Commission on Official Legal Publications, Judicial Branch, State of Connecticut. ****************************************************** STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. MICHAEL CARLTON REDDICK (AC 35018) Lavine, Keller and Schaller, Js. Argued May 14—officially released September 23, 2014 (Appeal from Superior Court, judicial district of New Haven, Blue, J.) Deborah G. Stevenson, assigned counsel, for the appellant (defendant). Jennifer F. Miller, special deputy assistant state’s attorney, with whom, on the brief, were Michael Dear- ington, state’s attorney, and Roger Dobris, senior assis- tant state’s attorney, for the appellee (state). Opinion

SCHALLER, J. The defendant, Michael Carlton Reddick, appeals from the judgment of conviction, ren- dered following a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-134 (a) (4) and larceny in the third degree in violation of General Stat- utes § 53a-124 (a) (2). On appeal, the defendant claims that (1) there was insufficient evidence to support a finding that he committed the crimes charged; (2) the court failed to instruct the jury properly regarding a key witness’ drug use and the effect it may have had on her perception; (3) the trial court failed to instruct the jury properly on the fallibility of eyewitness identifi- cations; (4) the court improperly denied his motion for a new trial; and (5) he was deprived of his right to counsel pursuant to the federal and state constitutions when the state received privileged materials in error from the Department of Correction. We affirm the judg- ment of conviction. The jury reasonably could have found the following facts. On March 15, 2011, the defendant’s girlfriend, Jacqueline Crenshaw, invited her friend, Deyja Jackson, to travel from her home in Massachusetts and stay at the apartment she shared with the defendant in Hamden. Following Jackson’s arrival, both she and Crenshaw smoked phencyclidine (PCP).1 The next day, March 16, 2011, Jackson drove both Crenshaw and the defendant to a McDonald’s restaurant located across the street from a branch of Bank of America on Dixwell Avenue in Hamden. They arrived at the McDonald’s at approxi- mately 11:45 a.m. and, within minutes of their arrival, the defendant exited the vehicle wearing a dark colored jacket, hat, glasses, and carrying a black bag. At approximately 12 p.m., Anita Palmieri, a teller at the Bank of America branch, was setting aside money from her drawer following a large deposit when a black male wearing a hat, glasses, and a dark blue or black pea coat approached her counter. The man told Palmieri that he had a gun and demanded all of the money from her drawer, which she gave to him. The man then demanded more money, prompting Palmieri to inform him that she only had mutilated money2 remaining. The man took the mutilated money as well. After placing all of the money in a bag, the man left the bank. Palmieri pressed a panic button, which notified the Hamden Police Department of an emergency. In addition to describing the gender, skin color, and clothing of the perpetrator, Palmieri later indicated to police that he was between five feet, three inches and five feet, five inches tall and approximately fifty years of age. Follow- ing the robbery, Jessica Philpotts, assistant manager at the Bank of America branch, noted in the bank’s busi- ness records that the perpetrator stole $3405.50. At approximately 12:03 p.m., Jackson observed the defendant jog back to her car from the Bank of America branch across the street. Jackson noted that less than fifteen minutes had passed between the defendant’s departure from her vehicle and his return. Once the defendant was back in Jackson’s vehicle, he and Crens- haw requested that Jackson give them a ride back to their apartment. After dropping the defendant and Cren- shaw off at their apartment, Jackson travelled to a nearby parking lot and smoked PCP until she blacked out. Thereafter, when Jackson ‘‘came back to reality,’’ she drove to a friend’s New Haven residence. Later that night, Jackson watched a news story regarding a rob- bery at the Bank of America branch on Dixwell Avenue in Hamden. Hearing the story’s description of the perpe- trator, Jackson deduced that it was the defendant who had robbed the bank. Jackson subsequently contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and reported her potential involvement in the Hamden bank robbery. The next day, March 17, 2011, the Hamden Police Department followed up on Jackson’s tip to the FBI and requested that she return to Hamden. Jackson acquiesced and travelled to the Hamden Police Depart- ment, where she voluntarily gave a statement under oath concerning the robbery and identified the defen- dant as the perpetrator from a photographic array. In addition, the police showed Jackson photographs of the perpetrator from the bank’s surveillance camera that recorded the robbery and, after reviewing them, she indicated that the photographs depicted the defendant. Following the interview with Jackson, Detective Sean Dolan of the Hamden Police Department determined that there was probable cause to arrest the defendant. The Hamden Police Department subsequently alerted area police departments of its intention to arrest the defendant, and he was apprehended later that day. Dur- ing his arrest, the police searched the defendant and seized a large quantity of money, which included bills marked consistently with the mutilated bills that Palmi- eri had described to the police. The state, in a long form information, charged the defendant with robbery in the first degree, conspiracy to commit robbery in the first degree, larceny in the third degree, and conspiracy to commit larceny in the third degree. Following a trial, the jury found the defen- dant guilty of robbery in the first degree and larceny in the third degree.3 The court imposed a total effective sentence of twenty-five years incarceration. This appeal followed. Additional facts and procedural history will be set forth as necessary. I The defendant first claims that there was insufficient evidence to establish his identity as the perpetrator beyond a reasonable doubt. In support of his claim, the defendant argues that Palmieri, the state’s key witness, was unable to positively identify him as the perpetrator. The defendant further argues that the testimony of Jack- son and Channing Reynolds, a second bank teller who witnessed the robbery, was insufficient to prove that the defendant was the perpetrator.

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