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State v. Niquette, 122 N.H. 870, 872-73, 451 A.2d 1292, 1293 (1982) (holding that exclusion of conviction evidence was within court’s discretion when Rule 68 was violated by defendant’s failure to demonstrate convicted individual had or waived counsel).

We will not review an issue on appeal that has not been raised before the trial court by a timely objection.

If an issue is not properly preserved, the objection is “deemed waived because the trial court is denied the opportunity to correct any error that it may have made.” State v. Niquette, 122 N.H. 870, 873, 451 A.2d 1292, 1294 (1982).

We find that the defendant preserved the issue of an improper jury instruction, after the jury’s question, by objecting to the court’s instruction in a timely manner.

” State v. Niquette, *419 122 N.H. 870, 873, 451 A.2d 1292, 1294 (1982); and that, with regard to closing arguments, “an objection should be taken at the time the alleged improper statement is made, or within a reasonable time thereafter.

For the future, we direct that the language most recently referred to in State v. Niquette, 122 N.H. 870, 874, 451 A.2d 1292, 1294 (1982) be used whenever it is appropriate to advert to the possibility of unnecessary deadlock: *50 “The verdict must represent the considered judgment of each juror.

State v. Fournier, 123 N.H. 777, 779, 465 A.2d 898, 900 (1983); State v. Niquette, 122 N.H. 870, 873-74, 451 A.2d 1292, 1294 (1982); State v. Josselin, 119 N.H. 936, 937, 409 A.2d 1336, 1336 (1979) (new counsel cannot comb the record on a treasure hunt for issues never properly brought before the trial judge).

The defendant’s final contention is that the judge, in his instructions to the jury, “particularized the indictment as to the *493 proof required for conviction,” and “said nothing about proof of ‘threatening to break his arm.’” Since defense counsel failed to object to the jury instructions when they were given, this contention is not properly before us. State v. Niquette, 122 N.H. 870, 873, 451 A.2d 1292, 1294 (1982).

Since defense counsel never requested a curative instruction and specifically stated at the close of trial that she had *368 no objection to the jury charge, we will not consider this issue on appeal.

State v. Niquette, 122 N.H. 870, 873, 451 A.2d 1292, 1294 (1982); State v. Lister, 122 N.H. 603, 607, 448 A.2d 395, 398 (1982).

This is not a case where, because no timely objection and exception were made, the court was “denied the opportunity to correct any error that it may have made.” State v. Niquette, 122 N.H. 870, 873, 451 A.2d 1292, 1294 (1982); see State v. Isabelle, 80 N.H. 191, 192-93, 115 A. 806, 807-08 (1921).

Having failed to preserve the issue at trial, the defendant may not raise it before this court.

at 83, 427 A.2d at 2-3; see State v. Niquette, 122 N.H. 870, 873-74, 451 A.2d 1292, 1294 (1982).

State v. Niquette, 122 N.H. 870, 873-74, 451 A.2d 1292, 1294 (1982); State v. Glidden, 122 N.H. 41, 48, 441 A.2d 728, 732 (1982).

While those objections are deemed waived, State v. Niquette, 122 N.H. 870, 873, 451 A.2d 1292, 1294 (1982), we would nonetheless point out that the defendant’s objections are wholly lacking in merit.

Could you give us some help?” After denial of the defendant’s motion for a mistrial, the court instructed the jury in accordance with section 15-4.4 of the American Bar Association Standards for Criminal Justice, Trial by Jury, at 15-133 (2d ed. 1980) (volume 3); see State v. Niquette, 122 N.H. 870, 873-74, 451 A.2d 1292, 1294 (1982); State v. Blake, 113 N.H. 115, 124, 305 A.2d 300, 306 (1973).

His *1147 failure to do so, see State v. Niquette, 122 N.H. 870, 873, 451 A.2d 1292, 1294 (1982); State v. Sullivan, 121 N.H. at 304, 428 A.2d at 1249, undermines his claim that the jury instruction in fact harmed him in any way.