On Thursday, the Connecticut Supreme Court will hear an appeal from convicted killer Joshua Komisarjevsky. Defense attorneys seek a retrial, claiming he was denied his right to a fair trial for the notorious 2007 Petit family triple murder in Cheshire. They cite recordings of six police radio calls that were not made available at trial.
Attorney and frequent WTIC contributor Jim Bergenn of Hartford firm Shipman & Goodwin says, "What was withheld was pretty critical evidence that, if I'm a juror, I want to know whether or not the officer is telling me everything that he did might actually be a little bit... motivated, because they actually might not have handled it properly."
Bergenn adds there's no question about the horrific nature of the actions of Komisarjevsky and accomplice Steven Hayes, but he also thinks that the state Supreme Court "would be well within the existing case law to say, 'You blew it, I know it's a pain, but you gotta do it again because you gotta do it right.'"
Above, an audio preview of the proceedings with Bergenn, interviewed by WTIC's Dave Mager.