Legal Opinion
State v. Guzman
Connecticut Appellate Court
Decided September 16, 2008No. AC 27609PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
WEST, J.
The defendant, Carlos A. Guzman, appeals from the judgment of conviction, rendered after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-134 (a) (2). On appeal, the defendant claims that the court improperly (1) submitted the BB guns at issue to the jury with suppression hearing evidence tags on them, (2) limited the scope of his closing argument by precluding him from arguing whether a BB gun was a weapon or a deadly weapon under General Statutes § 53a-3 (6), and (3) reconstituted the jury by (a) dismissing juror K and (b) failing to remove…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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3Cited by7 opinions
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