State v. Leach

The defendant, Kareem Leach, appeals from the judgment of conviction, rendered following a jury trial, of assault in the first degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-59 (a)(5) and robbery in the first degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-134 (a)(2). The defendant claims that the court's jury instructions were one-sided, favoring the state, and deprived him of a fair trial. We conclude that the defendant implicitly waived this unpreserved claim. Accordingly, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.

The jury reasonably could have found the following facts. On January 13, 2013,…