Bell v. Commissioner of Correction

*152 *811 The petitioner, Leon Bell, appeals from the judgment of the habeas court denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. 1 The habeas court denied the petition after concluding that, although the petitioner was entitled to a jury instruction in accordance with the seminal case of State v. Salamon , 287 Conn. 509 , 949 A.2d 1092 (2008), that failure was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. The dispositive issue in this appeal is whether the habeas court correctly concluded that the absence of a Salamon instruction in the petitioner's criminal trial was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. In…