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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

State of Connecticut v. Wallace Joyce
    Decided March 4, 1993
    The Supreme Court docket number is SC 14708.
    
      John R. Williams, in support of the petition.
    
      James A. Killen, assistant state’s attorney, in opposition.
   The defendant’s petition for certification for appeal from the Appellate Court, 30 Conn. App. 164 (AC 9896), is granted, limited to the following issue:

“In the circumstances of this case, were the police, while lawfully in custodial possession of the defendant’s clothing, required by either the federal or state constitution to obtain a warrant before transferring the clothing to a state laboratory and subjecting it to chemical analysis?”