Title 54 — Title 54: Criminal Procedure

Sec. 54-132. Definitions. Section 54-132 is repealed, effective June 19, 2002.* (1951, S. 3346d; 1957, P.A. 340; 1963, P.A. 642, S. 78; P.A. 00-185, S. 4, 5.) *Note: P.A. 00-185 repealed this section effective “July 1, 2001, or upon enactment of the Interstate Compact for Adult O…

Sec. 54-133. Interstate Compact for Adult Offender Supervision. The Interstate Compact for Adult Offender Supervision is hereby enacted into law and entered into by this state with all jurisdictions legally joining therein, in the form substantially as follows: ARTICLE I PURPOSE …

Sec. 54-133a. Motor vehicle violation deemed a criminal offense for purposes of Interstate Compact for Adult Offender Supervision. For the purposes of section 54-133, a motor vehicle violation for which a sentence to a term of imprisonment of more than one year may be imposed sha…

Secs. 54-134 to 54-138b. Designation of “Compact Institutions”. Transfers to other correctional institutions. Incarceration in receiving state not to affect rights in sending state. Reimbursement for expenses. Ratification; regulations. Retaking of parolee. Unauthorized residency…

Secs. 54-139 to 54-141. Transferred to Chapter 961, Secs. 54-82c to 54-82e, inclusive.

Sec. 54-142. Destruction of notes received for unpaid fines. Section 54-142 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 8823; 1963, P.A. 642, S. 80; P.A. 76-336, S. 10.)

Sec. 54-142a. (Formerly Sec. 54-90). Erasure of criminal records. (a) Whenever in any criminal case, on or after October 1, 1969, the accused, by a final judgment, is found not guilty of the charge or the charge is dismissed, all police and court records and records of any state'…

Sec. 54-142b. (Formerly Sec. 54-90a). Erasure of record of girl found guilty of being in manifest danger. Any person who has been found guilty under section 17-379 or any statute predecessor thereto, if she has been convicted of no other offense prior to her twenty-first birthday…

Sec. 54-142c. Disclosure of erased records. (a) The clerk of the court or any person charged with retention and control of erased records by the Chief Court Administrator or any criminal justice agency having information contained in such erased records shall not disclose to anyo…

Sec. 54-142d. Erasure of record of decriminalized offense. Exceptions. Whenever any person has been convicted of an offense in any court in this state and such offense has been decriminalized subsequent to the date of such conviction, such person may file a petition with the Supe…

Sec. 54-142e. Judicial Department or criminal justice agency to make available information to identify erased records. Duty of consumer reporting agency or background screening provider to update and delete erased criminal records. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection…

Sec. 54-142f. Council on the Collateral Consequences of a Criminal Record. Established. Membership. Chairpersons. Administrative staff. Report. (a) There is established a Council on the Collateral Consequences of a Criminal Record, which shall be part of the Legislative Departmen…

Sec. 54-142g. Definitions. For purposes of this part and sections 29-11 and 54-142c, the following definitions shall apply: (a) “Criminal history record information” means court records and information compiled by criminal justice agencies for purposes of identifying criminal off…

Sec. 54-142h. Data collection; audit; maintenance of records and log. (a) All criminal justice agencies that collect, store or disseminate criminal history record information shall institute a process of data collection, entry, storage and systematic audit that will minimize the …

Sec. 54-142i. Duties of criminal justice agencies re collection, storage and dissemination of criminal history record information. All criminal justice agencies which collect, store or disseminate criminal history record information shall: (1) Screen and have the right to reject …

Sec. 54-142j. Adoption of regulations and procedures. The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection shall adopt regulations to establish procedures for criminal justice agencies to query the central repository prior to dissemination of any criminal history disposit…

Sec. 54-142k. Availability of conviction information and nonconviction information. (a) Each person or agency holding conviction information or nonconviction information shall establish reasonable hours and places of inspection of such information. (b) Each person or agency holdi…

Sec. 54-142l. Challenge to completeness or accuracy of record. (a) A person may challenge the completeness and accuracy of such information by giving written notice of his challenge to the State Bureau of Identification and to the agency at which he inspected the information, if …

Sec. 54-142m. Disclosure of nonconviction information by criminal justice agency. (a) A criminal justice agency holding nonconviction information may disclose it to persons or agencies not otherwise authorized (1) for the purposes of research, evaluation or statistical analysis, …

Sec. 54-142n. Further provisions for disclosure of nonconviction information. Nonconviction information other than erased information may be disclosed only to: (1) Criminal justice agencies in this and other states and the federal government; (2) agencies and persons which requir…

Sec. 54-142o. Dissemination of nonconviction information to noncriminal justice agencies. (a) Nonconviction information disseminated to noncriminal justice agencies shall be used by such agencies only for the purpose for which it was given and shall not be redisseminated. (b) No …

Sec. 54-142p. Letter of criminal record or no criminal record to enter United States or foreign nation. (a) Any criminal justice agency may furnish criminal history record information or a no criminal record letter to an individual in conjunction with an application to enter the …

Sec. 54-142q. Criminal Justice Information System Governing Board. Membership. Duties and responsibilities. Access to information. (a) As used in this section, (1) “governing board” means the Criminal Justice Information System Governing Board established in this section, (2) “of…

Sec. 54-142r. Availability of data in criminal justice information system. Procedures for obtaining data. (a) Any data in a criminal justice information system, as defined in section 54-142q, shall be available to the Commissioner of Administrative Services and the executive dire…

Sec. 54-142s. State-wide information technology system for sharing of criminal justice information. (a) The Criminal Justice Information System Governing Board shall design and implement a comprehensive, state-wide information technology system to facilitate the immediate, seamle…

Sec. 54-142t. Automated process for erasure of criminal records. Liability re actions taken in reliance upon criminal history record information. Claims against the state. Request for review of criminal history records for erasure. (a) The Department of Emergency Services and Pub…

Sec. 54-142u. Automatic erasure of record of person for certain cannabis possession convictions. (a) Whenever on or after January 1, 2000, but prior to October 1, 2015, any person has been convicted in any court of this state of possession under subsection (c) of section 21a-279,…

Sec. 54-142v. Erasure of record of person for certain cannabis convictions for possession, possession or use of paraphernalia or manufacture or for distribution, sale, prescription, administration or growing of cannabis. (a)(1) Any person who has been convicted in any court in th…

Sec. 54-142w. Police or court record of a state's attorney or prosecuting attorney not marked as erased under automated system. If the automated processes required to be developed under section 54-142t have not marked a police or court record or the record of any state's attorney…

Sec. 54-77. Transferred to Chapter 890, Sec. 51-352.

Sec. 54-77a. Establishing venue and selecting jurors for the town of Plymouth. Section 54-77a is repealed. (P.A. 75-26, S. 1, 8; P.A. 76-436, S. 664, 681; P.A. 77-576, S. 11, 65.)

Sec. 54-77b. Transferred to Chapter 890, Sec. 51-352a.

Sec. 54-78. Transferred to Chapter 890, Sec. 51-353.

Sec. 54-79. Transferred to Chapter 890, Sec. 51-353b.

Secs. 54-80 to 54-81b. Public defenders. Assistant public defenders; office; assistance. Expenses. Appointment of special defender. Public defenders for Common Pleas Court. Representation of accused on bindover. Sections 54-80 to 54-81b, inclusive, are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 36…

Sec. 54-82. Accused's election of trial by court or by jury. Number of jurors. (a) In any criminal case, prosecution or proceeding, the accused may, if the accused so elects when called upon to plead, be tried by the court instead of by the jury; and, in such case, the court shal…

Sec. 54-82a. Test of insanity as defense. Section 54-82a is repealed. (1967, P.A. 336, S. 1, 2; 1969, P.A. 828, S. 214.)

Sec. 54-82b. Right to trial by jury. (a) The party accused in a criminal action in the Superior Court may demand a trial by jury of issues which are triable of right by a jury. There is no right to trial by jury in criminal actions where the maximum penalty is a fine of one hundr…

Sec. 54-82c. (Formerly Sec. 54-139). Prisoner's right to speedy trial on pending charges. (a) Whenever a person has entered upon a term of imprisonment in a correctional institution of this state and, during the continuance of the term of imprisonment, there is pending in this st…

Sec. 54-82d. (Formerly Sec. 54-140). Dismissal of charges on failure to grant prisoner speedy trial. If an action is not assigned for trial within the period of time as provided in section 54-82c, no court of this state shall any longer have jurisdiction thereof, nor shall the un…

Sec. 54-82e. (Formerly Sec. 54-141). Mentally ill person not covered. The provisions of sections 54-82c and 54-82d shall not apply to any person adjudged to be mentally ill. (1957, P.A. 551, S. 3.) History: Sec. 54-141 transferred to Sec. 54-82e in 1981 and revised references to …

Sec. 54-82f. Voir dire examination. In any criminal action tried before a jury, either party shall have the right to examine, personally or by his counsel, each juror outside the presence of other prospective jurors as to his qualifications to sit as a juror in the action, or as …

Sec. 54-82g. (Formerly Sec. 51-242). Peremptory challenges in criminal prosecution. The accused may challenge peremptorily, in any criminal trial before the Superior Court for any offense punishable by death or life imprisonment without the possibility of release, twenty-five jur…

Sec. 54-82h. Alternate jurors in criminal cases. Peremptory challenges. (a) In any criminal prosecution to be tried to the jury in the Superior Court if it appears to the court that the trial is likely to be protracted, the court may, in its discretion, direct that, after a jury …

Sec. 54-82i. (Formerly Sec. 54-22). Attendance of witnesses in criminal proceedings. (a) Definitions. The following words, when used in this section, have the meaning specified, unless the context otherwise indicates: “Witness” means a person whose testimony is desired in any pro…

Sec. 54-82j. (Formerly Sec. 54-23). Detention of witnesses. Warrant. Upon the written complaint of any state's attorney addressed to the clerk of the superior court for the judicial district wherein such state's attorney resides, alleging (1) that a person named therein is or wil…

Sec. 54-82k. (Formerly Sec. 54-24). Recognizance; commitment; release; fees. (a) If, upon the examination provided for in section 54-82j, the judge is of the opinion that the interests of justice so require, he may order that a recognizance to the state be entered into by one or …

Sec. 54-82l. Rules re speedy trial to be adopted by judges of Superior Court effective July 1, 1983. In accordance with the provisions of section 51-14, the judges of the Superior Court shall make such rules as they deem necessary to provide a procedure to assure a speedy trial f…

Sec. 54-82m. Rules re speedy trial to be adopted by judges of Superior Court effective July 1, 1985. In accordance with the provisions of section 51-14, the judges of the Superior Court shall make such rules as they deem necessary to provide a procedure to assure a speedy trial f…

Secs. 54-82n to 54-82p. Reserved for future use.