Legal Opinion
State v. Walczyk
Connecticut Appellate Court
Decided April 8, 2003No. AC 22055PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
PETERS, J.
This appeal concerns the validity of a search warrant that produced evidence of violations of General Statutes § 29-37Í,1 which penalizes the improper storage of firearms to which children might have access. The warrant was issued to obtain evidence of the crime of threatening under General Statutes (Rev. to 1999) § 53a-62,2 but the defendant was acquitted of that *171charge. A valid warrant would nonetheless have authorized the seizure of the defendant’s firearms, which were in plain view when the police conducted their search. We must decide whether there was probable cause to…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- State v. CoutureSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1984
- State v. SmithSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1988
- Loisel v. RoweSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1995
- State v. McElveenSupreme Court of Connecticut · 2002
- State v. RespassSupreme Court of Connecticut · 2001
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Walczyk v. RioCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2007
- Whitten v. City of OmahaDistrict Court, D. Nebraska · 2016
- State v. BegleyConnecticut Appellate Court · 2010
- Walczyk v. RioDistrict Court, D. Connecticut · 2004
- State v. EdmanConnecticut Appellate Court · 2005
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