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STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. RICHARD POUNCEY
    The Supreme Court docket number is SC 15412.
    
      Lauren Weisfeld, assistant public defender, in support of the petition.
    
      Carolyn Longstreth, assistant state’s attorney, in opposition.
    Decided May 2, 1996
   The defendant’s petition for certification for appeal from the Appellate Court, 40 Conn. App. 624 (AC 12128), is granted, limited to the following issue:

“In the circumstances of this case, should the Appellate Court have exercised its supervisory power to order a new trial because of prosecutorial misconduct in the prosecutor’s closing argument?”