State v. Stevens

The defendant appeals his superior court conviction for burglary on the ground that certain evidence used to convict him was obtained pursuant to an unlawful arrest. The defendant also asserts that the granting of his motion to suppress in the district court barred the State from relitigating the legality of the arrest in the superior court. We find no error and affirm the defendant’s conviction.

On the evening of November 12, 1979, Lieutenant Goonan of the Manchester police received a report from John O’Keefe, a person known to the officer for several years, that he had witnessed an incident…