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STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. CHRISTOPHER BERNIER
    The Supreme Court docket number is SC 15781.
    
      Timothy J. Sugrue, executive assistant state’s attorney, in support of the petition.
    
      A. Thomas Waterfall, in opposition.
    Decided September 30, 1997
   The state of Connecticut’s petition for certification for appeal from the Appellate Court, 46 Conn. App. 350 (AC 15731), is granted, limited to the following issue:

“Did the Appellate Courtproperly conclude that State v. Joyce, 229 Conn. 10 (1994), requires that a search warrant be obtained to test items lawfully seized as part of an investigation into the cause and origin of a residential fire?”