State v. Daniels

The defendant was convicted, after a jury trial, of the crime of sexual assault in the first degree, General Statutes § SSaAO.1 The defendant claims that the trial court erred (1) in admitting as an admission by silence evidence of the defendant’s failure to respond to accusatory statements directed to him by the victim, (2) in failing to instruct the jury that, in order to find the defendant guilty of sexual assault in the first degree under § 53a-70 (a), it had to agree unanimously on which statutorily designated “method of compulsion” the defendant had employed to compel the victim to…