Maner v. Commissioner of Correction

Citations

• 236 Conn. App. 472

Syllabus

The petitioner, who previously had been convicted of various crimes, includ- ing felony murder, appealed following the granting of his petition for certifi- cation to appeal from the habeas court's judgment denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. He claimed, inter alia, that the court improperly denied his freestanding constitutional claim, which asserted that the police had illegally obtained records containing his historical cell site location information (CSLI) in violation of his rights under the fourth amendment to the United States constitution. Held: This court declined to review the petitioner's claim that the United States Supreme Court's decision in Carpenter v. United States (585 U.S. 296), holding that the government must generally obtain a warrant supported by probable cause before acquiring an individual's CSLI, should be applied retroactively, as the petitioner had expressly abandoned that claim. This court declined to review the petitioner's various unpreserved claims related to the statute (§ 54-47aa) governing orders to compel disclosure of or applications to a telecommunications carrier or provider for certain CSLI, as he did not plead these claims in his petition for habeas corpus and, thus, they were not decided by the habeas court. This court concluded that, even if it is assumed that the petitioner's CSLI should have been excluded at his criminal trial, any error in its admission was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt, as that evidence was not critical to the state's case against the petitioner and, thus, did not contribute to or substantially affect the jury's verdict. Argued May 27—officially released November 25, 2025