State v. Williams

The defendant, Floyd Williams, appeals from a judgment of conviction, rendered after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-134 (a) (2) and assault in the first degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-59 (a) (1). *656The defendant claims that the trial court improperly (1) permitted the state to comment on the defendant’s pretrial silence in violation of his constitutional right to remain silent and his right to due process, (2) admitted evidence indicative of, and instructed the jury on, the defendant’s consciousness of guilt, (3) enlarged the…