220 Conn. 918
Decided October 3, 1991
Supreme Court of Connecticut · decided 1991-10-03
Relies on State v. Geisler
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Decided 1991-10-03
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably Bassin v. City of Stamford (1992), Barry v. Posi-Seal International, Inc. (1994)
26 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
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¶1The state of Connecticut’s petition for certification for appeal from the Appellate Court, 25 Conn. App. 282, is granted, limited to the following issue:
¶2“Was the Appellate Court correct in reversing the trial court’s factual finding that the police reasonably believed that the defendant was in need of emergency assistance, thus rendering entry of the defendant’s home lawful under the emergency doctrine?”