State v. Graham

The defendant appeals from a judgment of conviction, rendered after a jury trial, of the crime of assault in the first degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-59 (a) (1). The defendant claims that the trial court erred (1) in conducting the proceedings in a manner that deprived the defendant of a fair trial, (2) in its ruling and instructions regarding certain prior inconsistent statements, (3) in allowing the state to exercise a peremptory challenge to exclude a black venireperson, (4) in failing to cover all the salient points requested by the defendant when instructing the jury, (5)…