Legal Opinion

State v. Barrett

Supreme Court of Connecticut

Decided December 8, 1987No. 12018PublishedCited by 72 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtPeters, C. J.

The principal issue in this appeal is whether incriminating oral statements that the defendant made to the police during a custodial interrogation should have been suppressed by virtue of the right to counsel guaranteed by article first, § 8, of the Connecticut constitution. In our original decision in this case, we concluded that the statements were inadmissible under the fifth and fourteenth amendments to the United States constitution. State v. Barrett, 197 Conn. *43950, 495 A.2d 1044 (1985). We declined to consider what state constitutional rights the defendant might have had because he had…

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