State v. Dawkins

The defendant 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) (4), larceny in the second degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-123 (a) (3) and assault in the third degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-61. The defendant claims that the trial court improperly (1) instructed the jury that an adverse inference could be drawn from the defendant’s failure to produce his sister, Mina Dawkins, and her boyfriend, Norman Ramsey, as witnesses, (2) admitted evidence of the defendant’s…