STATE v. HAMILTON

(13696)

214 Conn. 692 (1990)

STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. DAISY HAMILTON

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decision released April 24, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick W. Fawcett, assistant state's attorney, with whom, on the brief, were Donald A. Browne, state's attorney, and John Smriga, assistant state's attorney, for the appellant (state).

Mark F. Gross, for the appellee (defendant).

PETERS, C. J., HEALEY, SHEA, GLASS and HULL, JS.


ARTHUR H. HEALEY, J.

The dispositive issue in this appeal is whether the Appellate Court erred in concluding that the discovery of certain keys used to unlock a van where drugs were stored was not inadvertent and thus did not qualify under the plain view doctrine as an exception to the warrant requirement.1 The Appellate Court in State v. Hamilton, 17 Conn.App...

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