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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The Connecticut Supreme Court has upheld a robbery conviction against a man who called for a mistrial because his mother told a juror outside court that a police officer had lied on the stand. Justices issued a 7-0 ruling on Tuesday affirming the conviction against Orlando Berrios Jr., saying the state proved his mother's actions didn't affect the jury's impartiality. Berrios is serving a 15-year prison sentence for robbing a man in New Haven of cash and other valuables in December 2011. His appeal centered on separate U.S. Supreme Court rulings over whether there's a presumption of prejudice in jury tampering cases that imposes a heavy burden on prosecutors to prove a jury's impartiality was unaffected. Such rulings have divided state and federal courts for more than 30 years.

Court upholds conviction of man who cited jury tampering