R.J.Y. v. State

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• claim of prosecutorial misconduct, unpreserved at trial, fails on appeal where challenged conduct “ ‘unrepresentative of a pattern of conduct repeated throughout the trial’ ”
• legislature intended ‘‘the course of committing a larceny . . . as the time frame for completion of the offense of robbery’’ (inter- nal quotation marks omitted)
• ‘‘[a]lthough defense counsel claimed at trial that the defendant’s restraints were visible from the jury box, he did not create a record to substantiate that claim by making an appropriate offer of proof’’
• in absence of evidence that jury was aware defendant was shackled, it was clear beyond reasonable doubt that presumption of innocence was not abridged by court’s decision to have defendant shackled during trial
• \the charged crimes of kidnapping in the first degree under subdivisions [A] and [B] of § 53a-92 [a] [2] are separate offenses for double jeopardy purposes\ because each requires proof of element that other does not

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