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State v. Ostroski

Citations

  • 201 Conn. 534
  • 518 A.2d 915
  • 1986 Conn. LEXIS 1011

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the inmate “was not an agent of the police” and that, balancing all three Brown factors, the defendant’s confession to a fellow inmate “was not the product of police exploitation of any prior illegality but was a totally unexpected voluntary admission by the defendant”
  • purpose of continued detention was not “to acquire a totally unexpected, voluntary admission by the defendant to his friend Allen”
  • “[a] summary request such as this one does not comply with our rules of practice”
  • defendant’s “summary request” contained no facts at all

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Judges: Healey

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