Opinion
2013-01-3
STATE of Connecticut v. Clerde PIERRE.
Kirstin B. Coffin, assigned counsel, in support of the petition. Harry Weller, senior assistant state's attorney, in opposition.
Kirstin B. Coffin, assigned counsel, in support of the petition. Harry Weller, senior assistant state's attorney, in opposition.
The defendant's petition for certification for appeal from the Appellate Court, 139 Conn.App. 116, 54 A.3d 1060, is granted, limited to the following issues:
“1. Did the Appellate Court properly determine that the trial court correctly denied the defendant's motion to suppress the gun and marijuana found in a warrantless search of an attic storage area of the rooming house wherein the defendant resided?
“2. If the answer to the first question is in the negative, is the claim that the defendant's statement to the police was fruit of the poisonous tree reviewable?
“3. If the answer to the second question is in the affirmative, should the defendant's statement to the police have been suppressed as fruit of the poisonous tree?”