
    STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. RICHARD S. TAYLOR
    Decided January 25, 2012
    The Supreme Court docket number is SC 18916.
    
      Daniel J. Krisch, assigned counsel, in support of the petition.
    
      Harry Weller, senior assistant state’s attorney, in opposition.
   The defendant’s petition for certification for appeal from the Appellate Court, 132 Conn. App. 357 (AC 31740), is granted, limited to the following issue:

“Did the Appellate Court properly determine that in a conspiracy case it is sufficient for the court to instruct the jury that, with respect to the first essential element that there was an agreement, ‘[i]t is sufficient to show that the parties knowingly engaged in a mutual plan to do a criminal act?’ ”  