State v. Sotomayor

Opinion

The defendant, Herminio Sotomayor, appeals, following our grant of certification to appeal, from the judgment of the Appellate Court affirming the trial court’s judgment of conviction of the crime of murder in violation of General Statutes § 53a-54a (a).1 *180State v. Sotomayor, 61 Conn. App. 364, 765 A.2d 1 (2001). We granted the defendant’s petition for certification to appeal limited to the following issue: “Was it harmful error for the trial court to instruct the jury that ‘[o]ne who uses a deadly weapon upon the vital parts of another will be deemed to have intended the probable…