This post was initially titled “knock me over with a feather” because the CT Supreme Court actually granted [concurrence] a habeas corpus petition today on the grounds of ineffective assistance of counsel. But to go on and on about that would be petty and I am not a petty person, so I’ll restrict my glee to these opening sentences and instead focus on the merits of the claim instead: that trial counsel was ineffective for failing to present testimony from 4 neutral eyewitnesses who would have supported the third-party culpability defense.

If nothing else, this decision serves as a primer on the law of third-party culpability, so it’s more for me than you.

As with everything else, the inquiry starts and ends with relevance: Continue reading →