We granted the state's petition for certification limited to the following issue: "Did the Appellate Court properly reverse the defendant's conviction on the ground of prosecutorial misconduct?" State v. Rowe, 272 Conn. 906, 863 A.2d 699 (2004). On appeal to this court, the state argues that (1) the Appellate Court improperly treated the defendant's unpreserved, unreviewable evidentiary claim regarding consciousness of guilt as a claim of prosecutorial misconduct, (2) even if the Appellate Court properly reviewed the defendant's consciousness of guilt claim, the prosecutor committed no prosecutorial misconduct with respect to this issue, (3) the prosecutor did not improperly comment on the defendant's failure to testify, and (4) even if the Appellate Court correctly determined that the prosecutor acted improperly, the defendant suffered no due process violation.