Donkersloot v. Donkersloot

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• rejecting state’s argument that defendant waived instructional claim under Kitchens and remanding case to Appellate Court, which subsequently found instructional error in State v. Baptiste, 133 Conn. App. 614, 628, 36 A.3d 697 [2012], appeal dismissed, 310 Conn. 790, 83 A.3d 591 [2014]
• no meaningful opportunity when \the trial court held only a brief charging conference and the defendant did not receive a written copy of the instructions\
• ‘‘[t]here is . . . no indication on the record that the trial court provided the defendant with an advance copy of the [charge; therefore] . . . there is simply no record that the defendant was afforded a meaningful opportunity to review the pro- posed charge’’

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