State v. Delgado

After a trial to a jury, the defendant was convicted of the crime of manslaughter in the first degree, a violation of General Statutes §§ 53a-55 (a) (1) and (3). On appeal, the defendant claims that the trial court erred: (1) in giving unrecorded instructions, in a jury indoctrination session held the day before the defendant’s trial began, to all jurors who had been summoned for jury duty; (2) in excluding evidence concerning protection sought by the defendant from the victim; (3) in excluding evidence about the defendant’s previous approval of the victim’s application for accelerated…