State v. Brosnan

The state of Connecticut’s petition for certification for appeal from the Appellate Court, 24 Conn. App. 473, is granted, limited to the following issues:

“1. Did the Appellate Court correctly hold that a person has a common law privilege to use force to resist an illegal entry into a place that is not his home if he has a reasonable expectation of privacy under the fourth amendment in that place?

“2. If the fourth amendment controls who has the common law privilege, was the Appellate Court correct in finding that the defendant was an overnight *908houseguest, thereby failing to defer to the trial…