SC20815 - State v. Sharpe (“This appeal requires us to determine, among other things,
whether the police may, without a warrant, collect DNA found on lawfully
obtained items and analyze the DNA for identification purposes. The defendant,
Michael Sharpe, appeals from the judgment of conviction, rendered after a jury
trial, of eight counts of kidnapping in the first degree. He claims that the
extraction and testing of his DNA from a belt the police lawfully retrieved
from his trash constituted an unreasonable search and seizure that violated his
right to privacy under the fourth amendment to the United States constitution
and article first, § 7, of the Connecticut constitution. He further claims that
the trial court’s use of a flowchart as a guide to its lengthy instructions
misled the jury because it omitted the factors this court articulated in State
v. Salamon, 287 Conn. 509, 548, 949 A.2d 1092 (2008). We disagree and
affirm the trial court’s judgment of conviction.”)