State v. Betts

Opinion

NORCOTT, J.

The dispositive issue in this appeal is whether the victim’s mother was an agent of the police for purposes of the fourth amendment to the United States constitution, 1 and article first, § 7, of the state constitution, 2 when, after telling police officers about an incriminating letter authored by the defendant, she retrieved that letter at their request from the bedroom that she shared with him. The defendant, William Betts, appeals 3 from the judgment of conviction, rendered after a jury trial, of three counts of the crime of risk of injury to a child in violation of…