State v. Richards

Opinion

HARPER, J.

The defendant, Jarrell Richards, appeals from the judgment of conviction following his conditional plea of nolo contendere1 to possession of a weapon in a motor vehicle in violation of General Statutes § 29-38. The plea followed the trial court’s denial of the defendant’s motion to suppress evidence that the police seized from an automobile that the defendant was driving prior to an investigatory detention by the police of the automobile and its occupants. The defendant argues that the court’s denial of the motion to suppress was improper because the investigatory detention…