
    STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. GREGORY PIERRE
    The Supreme Court docket number is SC 17227.
    Decided July 16, 2004
    
      Jeremiah Donovan, special public defender, and William T. Koch, Jr., special public defender, in support of the petition.
    
      Peter A. McShane, senior assistant state’s attorney, in opposition.
   The defendant’s petition for certification for appeal from the Appellate Court, 83 Conn. App. 28 (AC 24225), is granted, limited to the following issue:

“Did the Appellate Court properly determine that the admission by the trial court of a codefendant’s statement pursuant to State v. Whelan, 200 Conn. 743, 513 A.2d 86, cert. denied, 479 U.S. 994, 107 S. Ct. 597, 93 L. Ed. 2d 598 (1986), did not violate Whelan's requirement of personal knowledge, satisfied the adoptive admission and dual inculpatory statement rules, and did not abridge the defendant’s state and federal rights to confrontation?”  