(Internal quotation marks omitted.) State v. Duteau , 68 Conn. App. 248, 256, 791 A.2d 591, cert. denied, 260 Conn. 939, 835 A.2d 58 (2002). "[T]he determination of whether a claim has been properly preserved will depend on a careful review of the record to ascertain whether the claim on appeal was articulated [before the trial court] with sufficient clarity to place the trial court on reasonable notice of that very same claim."
" (Internal quotation marks omitted.) State v. Duteau, 68 Conn. App. 248, 254, 791 A.2d 591, cert. denied, 260 Conn. 939, 835 A.2d 58 (2002). II
Decided May 22, 2002 The defendant's petition for certification for appeal from the Appellate Court, 68 Conn. App. 248 (AC 20047), is denied. Reine C. Boyer, special public defender, in support of the petition.
(Internal quotation marks omitted.) State v. Duteau , 68 Conn. App. 248, 254, 791 A.2d 591, cert. denied, 260 Conn. 939, 835 A.2d 58 (2002). It is undisputed that the record contains no evidence supporting alternatives to the general plan of the petitioner to have the children reside with their grandmother until that is no longer possible, and then with the fictive kin.
The defendant devotes less than one page of his brief to this claim, which provides little more than a factual account of his oral motion to dismiss raised at the violation of probation hearing, and includes neither argument nor analysis of his passing citation to case law. See State v. T.R.D. , 286 Conn. 191, 213–14 n.18, 942 A.2d 1000 (2008) (declining to review claim as inadequately briefed where defendant "devoted a mere three quarters of a page in his brief to [the] claim, and failed to explicate adequately" the basis of his argument); State v. Duteau , 68 Conn. App. 248, 261–62, 791 A.2d 591 (declining to review claim as inadequately briefed where defendant failed to "provide either legal authority or analysis to support this claim"), cert. denied, 260 Conn. 939, 835 A.2d 58 (2002). "We are not required to review issues that have been improperly presented to this court through an inadequate brief.
(Citations omitted; internal quotation marks omitted.) State v. Jorge P. , 308 Conn. 740, 753–54, 66 A.3d 869 (2013) ; see also State v. Duteau , 68 Conn.App. 248, 256, 791 A.2d 591 ("This court shall not be bound to consider a claim unless it was distinctly raised at the trial or arose subsequent to the trial.... Practice Book § 60–5. Appellate review of evidentiary rulings is ordinarily limited to the specific legal issue raised by the objection of trial counsel.... By failing to object ... the defendant failed to preserve this claim.
(Citations omitted; internal quotation marks omitted.) State v. Jorge P., 308 Conn. 740, 753-54, 66 A.3d 869 (2013); see also State v. Duteau, 68 Conn. App. 248, 256, 791 A.2d 591 ("This court shall not be bound to consider a claim unless it was distinctly raised at the trial or arose subsequent to the trial. . . . Practice Book § 60-5. Appellate review of evidentiary rulings is ordinarily limited to the specific legal issue raised by the objection of trial counsel.
State v. Jenkins , 298 Conn. 209, 222, 3 A.3d 806 (2010).Therefore, because any decision made by us concerning the validity of the defendant's consent to search would be entirely speculative without the necessary factual and legal conclusions furnished by the trial court, it is unreviewable under the first prong of Golding . State v. Duteau , 68 Conn.App. 248, 254, 791 A.2d 591 (record inadequate for review of fourth amendment suppression claim where trial court did not issue memorandum of decision, sign the transcript, or make specific factual findings concerning issues on appeal), cert. denied, 260 Conn. 939, 835 A.2d 58 (2002) ; State v. Rios , 30 Conn.App. 712, 715–16, 622 A.2d 618 (1993) (same); see State v. Beliveau , supra, 52 Conn.App. at 481–82, 727 A.2d 737 (fifth amendment claim); see also State v. Young , 76 Conn.App. 392, 409, 819 A.2d 884 (record inadequate to review of motion to suppress in-court identification where trial court did not issue a memorandum of decision, sign the transcript, or "make any findings whatsoever regarding the suggestiveness of the arraignment proceedings"), cert. denied, 264 Conn. 912, 826 A.2d 1157 (2003).IV
(Internal quotation marks omitted.) State v. Duteau, 68 Conn.App. 248, 254, 791 A.2d 591, cert. denied, 260 Conn. 939, 835 A.2d 58 (2002). The respondent's claim fails for lack of an adequate record.
We have reviewed the comments complained of in the context of the entire trial and are satisfied that these comments, individual and in toto, were not so egregious as to infringe on the defendant's right to a fair trial. See State v. Duteau, 68 Conn. App. 248, 260, 791 A.2d 591, cert. denied, 260 Conn. 939, 835 A.2d 58 (2002). 1