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Salters v. Commissioner of Correction
Our appellate courts consistently have held that the risk of juror confusion from an improper intent instruction has been "eliminated by the trial court's numerous proper instructions on the elements of [the charged offense]." (Internal quotation marks omitted.) Id., at 475 , 797 A.2d 1101 ; see also, e.g., State v. Montanez , 277 Conn. 735 , 745-47, 894 A.2d 928 (2006) (holding no reasonable possibility jury misled by general instruction or reference to principle of general intent eleven times because trial court repeatedly gave clear instructions on specific intent required for manslaughter)…
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State v. Darrow
See State v. Sivak, 84 Conn. App. 105, 111 , 852 A.2d 812 , cert. denied, 271 Conn. 916 , 859 A.2d 573 (2004).
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Cator v. Commissioner of Correction
See also State v. Sivak , 84 Conn. App. 105 , 112-13, 852 A.2d 812 (reasonably possible jury was misled by improper intent instruction that included full statutory definition of "intentionally" and focused on intended conduct rather than intended result of causing serious physical harm), cert. denied, 271 Conn. 916 , 859 A.2d 573 (2004) ; State v. Lopes , 78 Conn. App. 264 , 270-72, 826 A.2d 1238 (reasonably possible jury was misled where "improper instruction was given in regard to the definition of murder and not solely in the instruction dealing with the general definition of intent," and t…
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State v. Martinez
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See, e.g., State v. Vilalastra, 207 Conn. 35, 42 , 540 A.2d 42 (1988); see also State v. Waden, 84 Conn. App. 147 , 153–54, 852 A.2d 817 (‘‘the state presented expert testimony that it is common for a street level drug dealer to keep a ‘stash’ of narcotics in an area close to where he is selling, rather than [to] have a significant quantity on his per- son’’), cert. denied, 271 Conn. 916 , 859 A.2d 574 (2004); State v. Ogrinc, 29 Conn. App. 694 , 699–700, 617 A.2d 924 (1992) (state presented expert testimony by police officer regarding common practice of drug dealers, including…
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State v. Nance
The tendency of an irrelevant instruction to mislead the jury instead must be considered in the context of the whole charge.” (Citations omitted; internal quotation marks omitted.) State v. Montanez, 277 Conn. 735, 746 , 894 A.2d 928 (2006); see also State v. Sivak, 84 Conn. App. 105, 112 , 852 A.2d 812 (noting that in such cases “appellate review should consist of more than a numerical count of how many times the instruction was correct rather than incorrect”), cert. denied, 271 Conn. 916 , 859 A.2d 573 (2004).
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State v. Brooks
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We do so because that argument is concerned exclusively with witness credibility and the weight accorded by the jury to the various witnesses, and we will not “revisit the testimony presented at trial and . . . weigh it differently.” State v. Griffin, 78 Conn. App. 646, 651 , 828 A.2d 651 (2003); see also State v. Waden, 84 Conn. App. 147, 152 , 852 A.2d 817 (“[w]e do not sit as a [seventh] juror who may cast a vote against the verdict based upon our feeling that some doubt of guilt is shown by the cold printed record” [internal quotation marks omitted]), cert. denied, 271 Conn. 916 , …
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State of Connecticut
v.
Kennard Waden
v.
Kennard Waden
Supreme Court of Connecticut.
Sep 15, 2004.
Melanie C. Frank, assistant public defender, and Suzanne Zitser, senior assistant public defender, in support of the petition., Russell C. Zentner, senior assistant state’s attorney, in opposition.
Katz.
Published
The defendant’s petition for certification for appeal from the Appellate Court, 84 Conn. App. 147 (AC 23292), is denied.
NORCOTT and KATZ, Js.,did not participate in the consideration or decision of this petition.