State v. Johnson

After a jury trial, the defendant was convicted of assault in the second degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-60 (a) (2)1 and larceny in the *127sixth degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-125b.2 The jury found him not guilty of robbery in the first degree, as charged in the first count of the substitute information. In his appeal from the judgment, the defendant claims that his right to a fair trial was violated (1) by remarks of the prosecutor during closing argument, (2) by the trial court’s instructions on circumstantial evidence, and (3) by the selection of two of the six…