PER CURIAM.

The petitioner, Jose Melendez, appeals following the denial of his petition for certification to appeal from the judgment of the habeas court denying his revised, amended petition for a writ of habeas corpus. On appeal, the petitioner claims that the habeas court (1) abused its discretion in denying his petition for certification to appeal, and (2) improperly determined that his trial counsel, Glenn M. Conway (counsel), provided effective assistance. We conclude that the court properly denied certification to appeal and, accordingly, we dismiss the petitioner's appeal.

The following facts and procedural history are relevant to this appeal. In the fall of 2004, the federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and the statewide narcotics task force conducted a joint investigation into alleged narcotics trafficking at the Fireside Restaurant in New Haven. As part of that investigation, investigators used a then confidential source, Jose Franco, to make controlled buys of narcotics at the restaurant. Franco was outfitted with a surveillance device designed to capture audio and video of any drug transactions, and to transmit wirelessly the audio and video to a nearby surveillance vehicle where the transmission would be recorded onto an eight millimeter videotape.

Two of Franco's recorded controlled buys involved exchanges with the petitioner. On October 8, 2004, Franco entered the restaurant with $100, provided to him by the investigators, and instructions to attempt to purchase narcotics from anyone who was selling them. While in the restaurant's restroom, Franco encountered the petitioner, who he knew was a drug dealer. Franco told the petitioner that he wanted to purchase some cocaine. The petitioner gave Franco a small bag containing white powder in exchange for $20. After making the purchase, Franco left the restaurant and immediately met with the investigators, who took the remaining $80 along with the bag containing white powder that Franco had purchased from the petitioner. The powder later field tested positive for cocaine. On October 14, 2004, a substantially similar transaction occurred between Franco and the petitioner in the restaurant's restroom, where Franco again purchased from the petitioner a $20 bag of white powder that field tested positive for cocaine.

The petitioner was arrested on December 17, 2004, and charged with various narcotics offenses. In April or May, 2005, counsel for the petitioner was permitted to view the eight millimeter videotape on which the two transactions originally were recorded. In December, 2005, DEA investigators provided a copy of the eight millimeter videotape to the state, and the state immediately provided a copy to counsel.

At a pretrial hearing on December 21, 2005, the parties and the trial court discussed the status of the case, including ongoing plea negotiations. Counsel informed the court that the petitioner himself had not yet viewed the video of the transactions on October 8 and 14, 2004, and arrangements were made for the petitioner to view the video that same day.1 The assistant state's attorney indicated that the state had not yet revealed the identity of its confidential source and explained to the petitioner that the state's outstanding initial plea offer of "five years flat to serve" would be withdrawn immediately if the state was required to disclose the confidential source's identity to the petitioner. At that same time, the assistant state's attorney told the petitioner that if he wanted to enter a plea after the state disclosed the confidential source's identity, he would have to enter an "open" guilty plea, whereby the sentence would be imposed in the discretion of the court. The assistant state's attorney indicated to the petitioner that, in light of the charges pending, the sentence would likely fall somewhere between a minimum of eight years incarceration and a maximum of twenty-five years incarceration.

Sometime after viewing a video home system (VHS) videotape made from the eight millimeter video footage of the October 8 and 14, 2004 transactions, the petitioner rejected the state's initial plea offer of five years to serve and elected to proceed to trial. The state then advised the petitioner of Franco's identity. Following jury selection, the state provided the petitioner with a digital video disc (DVD) that, according to the state, had been created from the original eight millimeter videotape of the October 8 and 14, 2004 transactions. The DVD contained eight separate video segments, four that depicted the transaction of October 8 and four that depicted the transaction of October 14. Of the four video segments for each transaction, one was an exact duplicate of the surveillance footage without any modifications, one contained the same footage slowed to 10 percent of normal speed, one comprised enhanced footage at normal speed, and one contained enhanced footage slowed to 10 percent of normal speed. Upon receiving the DVD, the petitioner made an oral motion for specific performance of the last plea offer extended by the state prior to the disclosure of Franco's identity and the DVD, that is, the arrangement whereby the petitioner would enter an "open" guilty plea and be subject to a term of incarceration between eight and twenty-five years.2 The court, Levin, J., denied the motion, finding that counsel previously was afforded the opportunity to review the same videotape the state used to make the DVD, and that both the videotape and the DVD depicted the same transactions.

The case proceeded to trial, and the petitioner was found guilty by a jury of two counts of sale of narcotics by a person who is not drug-dependent in violation of General Statutes § 21a-278 (b), and two counts of sale of narcotics within 1500 feet of a licensed day care center in violation of General Statutes § 21a-278a (b). The trial court rendered judgment in accordance with the jury verdict and sentenced the petitioner to a total effective term of thirty years incarceration. Our Supreme Court affirmed the petitioner's conviction. State v. Melendez, 291 Conn. 693, 719, 970 A.2d 64 (2009).

The petitioner filed a revised, amended petition for a writ of habeas corpus, alleging that counsel rendered ineffective assistance during the pretrial proceedings and the trial of the case. The petitioner's primary claims, and those relevant to this appeal, related to counsel's investigation and advice regarding the state's initial plea offer of five years to serve.3 The habeas court viewed the various video recordings — the eight millimeter videotape, the VHS tape viewed by the petitioner, and the enhanced DVD — depicting the transactions between Franco and the petitioner, and noted that "these videotapes are all incriminating ... regardless of their quality." The court, Cobb, J., in an oral memorandum of decision, then concluded that the petitioner had failed to demonstrate that counsel's performance was deficient and, accordingly, denied the petition for a writ of habeas corpus.4 See Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 687, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984). Thereafter, the petitioner requested certification to appeal. The court denied that petition. This appeal followed.

"In a habeas appeal, although this court cannot disturb the underlying facts found by the habeas court unless they are clearly erroneous, our review of whether the facts as found by the habeas court constituted a violation of the petitioner's constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel is plenary.... Faced with a habeas court's denial of a petition for certification to appeal, a petitioner can obtain appellate review of the dismissal of his petition for habeas corpus only by satisfying the two-pronged test enunciated by our Supreme Court in Simms v. Warden, 229 Conn. 178, 640 A.2d 601 (1994), and adopted in Simms v. Warden, 230 Conn. 608, 612, 646 A.2d 126 (1994). First, [the petitioner] must demonstrate that the denial of his petition for certification constituted an abuse of discretion.... Second, if the petitioner can show an abuse of discretion, he must then prove that the decision of the habeas court should be reversed on the merits....

"To prove an abuse of discretion, the petitioner must demonstrate that the [resolution of the underlying claim involves issues that] are debatable among jurists of reason; that a court could resolve the issues [in a different manner]; or that the questions are adequate to deserve encouragement to proceed further." (Emphasis added; internal quotation marks omitted.) O'Such v. Commissioner of Correction, 111 Conn.App. 135, 137, 957 A.2d 887, cert. denied, 289 Conn. 957, 961 A.2d 420 (2008). "In determining whether there has been an abuse of discretion, every reasonable presumption should be given in favor of the correctness of the court's ruling ... [and] [r]eversal is required only where an abuse of discretion is manifest or where injustice appears to have been done." (Internal quotation marks omitted.) Perry v. Commissioner of Correction, 131 Conn.App. 792, 796, 28 A.3d 1015, cert. denied, 303 Conn. 913, 32 A.3d 966 (2011).

"To prevail on a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, a habeas petitioner generally must show that counsel's performance was deficient and that the deficient performance prejudiced the defense. See Strickland v. Washington, [supra, 466 U.S. at 687, 104 S.Ct. 2052]." (Internal quotation marks omitted.) Perry v. Commissioner of Correction, supra, 131 Conn. App. at 796, 28 A.3d 1015. "[E]ffective assistance of counsel includes counsel's informed opinion as to what pleas should enter." (Internal quotation marks omitted.) Ebron v. Commissioner of Correction, 120 Conn.App. 560, 572, 992 A.2d 1200 (2010), rev'd in part on other grounds, 307 Conn. 342, 53 A.3d 983 (2012), cert. denied sub nom. Arnone v. Ebron, ___ U.S. ___, 133 S.Ct. 1726, 185 L.Ed.2d 802 (2013); see also Copas v. Commissioner of Correction, 234 Conn. 139, 154, 662 A.2d 718 (1995) ("[A]lmost every criminal defendant is faced with the crucial decision of whether to plead guilty or proceed to trial. Although this decision is ultimately made by the defendant, the defendant's attorney must make an informed evaluation of the options and determine which alternative will offer the defendant the most favorable outcome.").

The petitioner claims that his counsel provided ineffective assistance because he did not inform the petitioner of information that would have led him to accept the favorable five year plea offer — that is, the petitioner claims that counsel did not tell him that the original eight millimeter videotape, which he had viewed earlier, contained more incriminating footage than the edited VHS videotape that counsel and the petitioner viewed in December, 2005. The petitioner claims that counsel also provided ineffective assistance by failing to investigate adequately the video evidence in the state's possession — that is, counsel erred in not verifying that the videotape the petitioner viewed in December, 2005, was an exact copy of the original eight millimeter videotape and/or erred in not notifying the petitioner that the video he was shown in December, 2005, was incomplete because it did not depict the drugs for money exchange contained in the original eight millimeter videotape.

After a thorough review of the record and briefs, we agree with the habeas court that counsel's investigation into the video evidence was adequate and reasonable and that counsel effectively provided the petitioner with adequate information and advice upon which the petitioner could make an informed decision as to whether he should accept the state's initial five year plea offer. The court's conclusion that counsel provided effective assistance is supported by evidence in the record establishing that: (1) counsel viewed the original eight millimeter videotape, which depicted evidence incriminating the petitioner, and advised the petitioner of its incriminating nature; (2) counsel spoke with the petitioner regarding the plea offer on numerous occasions, and explained to the petitioner the elements of the crimes he was charged with and the strength of the state's case in relation to available and potentially available evidence, including the effect of potential testimony by Franco and the videotape's ability to corroborate that testimony; and (3) counsel specifically advised the petitioner to accept the plea offer. That the petitioner chose to draw his own conclusions as to the likelihood that Franco would testify, the credibility of Franco's testimony, and the incriminating nature of the video evidence depicting the transactions between Franco and the petitioner, does not alter our conclusion that counsel's assistance was effective.5

The petitioner has not demonstrated that the issues he has raised in the petition for certification to appeal are debatable among jurists of reason, that a court could resolve those issues differently or that the questions raised deserve encouragement to proceed further. See Lozada v. Deeds, 498 U.S. 430, 431-32, 111 S.Ct. 860, 112 L.Ed.2d 956 (1991); Simms v. Warden, supra, 230 Conn. at 616, 646 A.2d 126. Consequently, we conclude that the petitioner has failed to demonstrate that the court abused its discretion in denying his petition for certification to appeal. See, e.g., Coleman v. Commissioner of Correction, 108 Conn.App. 836, 838, 949 A.2d 536, cert. denied, 289 Conn. 913, 957 A.2d 876 (2008).

The appeal is dismissed.