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STATE v. SPEARS

(15117)

234 Conn. 78 (1995)

STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. LAKE SPEARS

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decision released July 4, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Robert Satti, Sr., special assistant state's attorney, with whom were Sarah E. Steere, legal intern, and, on the brief, Kevin T. Kane, state's attorney, for the appellant (state).

Richard D. Haviland, for the appellee (defendant).

Christopher F. Droney, United States attorney, and Carl J. Schuman, assistant United States attorney, filed a brief for the United States of America as amicus curiae.

Richard Blumenthal, attorney general, and Susan Quinn Cobb, assistant attorney general, filed a brief for the attorney general as amicus curiae.

Jackson T. King, Jr., Patrice H. Kunesh and Henry J. Sockbeson filed a brief for the Mashantucket Pequot Indian tribe as amicus curiae.

CALLAHAN, BORDEN, BERDON, NORCOTT and KATZ, JS.

CALLAHAN, J.

The sole issue in this certified appeal is whether the state of Connecticut has jurisdiction, pursuant to § 1755 of title 25 of the United States Code, over crimes committed on the Mashantucket Pequot Indian Reservation (reservation) in Ledyard. On November 29, 1991, the defendant, Lake Spears, was arrested by a Connecticut state trooper who had responded to an anonymous telephone call alerting the police to a disturbance at the defendant's residence...

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