State v. McFadden

The defendant appeals the trial court’s judgment of conviction, rendered after a jury trial, of assault in the first degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-59 (a) (1). The defendant claims that (1) the *172trial court improperly failed to charge the jury that it had to agree unanimously which of four objects was the “dangerous instrument” used by the defendant in his assault on the victim, and (2) he was deprived of a fair and unbiased jury due to the combined effect of the court’s jury instruction that the jury was to serve “as an arm of the court” and of the prosecutor’s highly personal…