Detective Testifies Of Finding Wife’s Note About Slaying
As a state police detective searched file cabinets in the Burlington home of UConn professor Pierluigi Bigazzi and his wife, Linda Kosuda-Bigazzi, in February, he encountered a blue file marked “criminal defense attorney,” and behind it one labeled “2017 incident.”
State Police Det. Corey Clabby testified before a Superior Court judge in New Britain Thursday that he noticed how the blue file was labeled but he didn’t think twice about opening it.
“It didn’t occur to me not to open it,” Clabby said. “[Clabby and fellow investigators] were unaware whoit belonged to since two people lived at the house and anything could have been in there. We found documents going back to the 1980s.”
Clabby testified at a hearing on whether murder charges against Kosuda-Bigazzi, accused of killing her husband, should be dropped because state police viewed documents that were covered by attorney-client privilege. He testified that he did not see in the “criminal defense attorney” file, a four-page handwritten note in which Kosuda-Bigazzi described having a fight with her husband that ended with her hitting him in the head with a hammer.
The note, the contents of which were included in the warrant for KosudaBigazzi’s arrest, which has been made public, is one of the documents the defense contends should not have been seized or viewed by investigators.
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