Supreme Court of Connecticut· 5/18/1994

State v. Chapman

Citations

229 Conn. 529
643 A.2d 1213
1994 Conn. LEXIS 160

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noting that “[i]t is improper for the trial court to read an entire statute to a jury when the pleadings or the evidence support a violation of only a portion of the statute”
declining to permit state to modify its concession before Appellate Court that jury instruction was improper when Appellate Court decision under review relied on that concession, and issue was whether Appellate Court should have applied harmless error analysis
‘‘[u]nder the circumstances . . . we cannot conclude that it is more probable than not that the court’s instruc- tional impropriety affected the result’’
in an alternative means case, the court held that, although the trial court erroneously instructed jury on an alternative for which there was no evidence, the instruction was harmless error
in an alternative means ease, the court held that, although the trial court erroneously instructed jury on an alternative for which there was no evidence, the instruction was harmless error
due process implicated where jurors given option of relying on legally inadequate theory of liability

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Judges: Berdon, Katz, Santaniello

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