State v. Edman

Opinion

KATZ, J.

The principal issue in the state’s certified appeal is whether the unchallenged assertions by the defendant, Eric Edman, in his affidavit in support of his motion to suppress evidence seized from his home, which alleged a prior personal relationship between himself and the magistrate who had issued the search warrant, were sufficient to establish that the defendant had been denied his right to a neutral and detached magistrate, as required by the fourth amendment to the United States constitution and article first, § 7, of the Connecticut constitution. The trial court…