SC20773- State v. Garrison (“The sole issue in this certified appeal is whether
officers from the Vernon Police Department elicited incriminating statements
from the defendant, Alexander A. Garrison, during a custodial interrogation in
his hospital room without first administering Miranda warnings, in violation of
his rights under the fifth and fourteenth amendments to the United States
constitution. The state appeals, upon our grant of its petition for
certification, from the judgment of the Appellate Court, which reversed the
judgment of conviction, rendered following a court trial, of assault in the
first degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-59 (a) (1). See State v.
Garrison, 213 Conn. App. 786, 789–90, 841, 278 A.3d 1085 (2022). The state
claims that the Appellate Court incorrectly determined that a new trial was
required because the trial court should have suppressed the defendant’s
statements on the ground that he was in custody when he spoke with the police
officers in his hospital room without having received Miranda warnings. We
conclude that the defendant was not in custody during any of his interactions
with the police officers at the hospital and, accordingly, reverse the judgment
of the Appellate Court.”)