State of Connecticut v. Brian Fielding

Summary

The court held that the trial court's order requiring the state to provide copies of seized child-pornography materials was an interlocutory discovery order, not a final judgment appealable under the ordinary appellate jurisdiction statute or the applicable interlocutory-appeal test. The state's asserted right to retain exclusive custody depended on the disputed applicability of a later-enacted statute and therefore was not a right already secured independently of the order. The court also declined to treat the matter as a public-interest appeal and affirmed the dismissal.