State v. Ralston

The state appeals, with the permission of the trial court, from the judgment dismissing with prejudice the information against the defendant following the suppression of wiretap evidence. The issues involve: (1) the sufficiency of the affidavits accompanying the applications to support the findings of probable cause for the issuance of the wiretap orders; (2) whether probable cause was required as to this defendant, whose telephone was not the subject of the orders but who was one of the named targets of the taps; and (3) whether General Statutes § 54-41c (7) precludes from the probable cause…