State v. Polanco

The defendant appeals from a judgment of conviction, rendered after a jury trial, of larceny in the fourth degree by receiving stolen property in violation of General Statutes §§ 53a-125 and 53a-119 (8).1 On appeal, the defendant claims that the trial court improperly (1) permitted repeated references to a prior criminal trial, (2) allowed the introduction of evidence of an act of prior misconduct, (3) failed to instruct the jury on the unreliability of accomplice testimony, and (4) instructed the jury on the guilty knowledge element *35of the crime of receiving stolen property. The judgment of…