The defendant’s petition for certification for appeal from the Appellate Court, 110 Conn. App. 401 (AC 27531), is granted, limited to the following issue:

“In circumstances where the prosecutor adduced evidence that the state had entered into a plea agreement with its key witness pursuant to which the state would seek a particular sentence but then, after that witness’ trial testimony, the state recommended a different, more lenient sentence for the witness, did the Appellate Court improperly refuse to remand the case to the trial court for an evidentiary hearing on the issue of whether *952 the state’s conduct violated the defendant’s due process rights?”