Connecticut

Connecticut General Statutes — Title 54, Criminal Procedure

522 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 54-205a — Discontinuance of debt collection efforts upon receipt of notice of pending claim from Office of Victim Services
• § 54-206 — Payment of attorneys as part of order
• § 54-207 — Regulations to prescribe procedures
• § 54-207a — Chief Court Administrator to prescribe policies and procedures
• § 54-208 — Order of payment of compensation
• § 54-209 — When compensation may be ordered
• § 54-210 — Compensation ordered for expenses, loss of earnings, pecuniary loss and other losses
• § 54-211 — Time limitation on filing application for compensation
• § 54-211a — Appeal
• § 54-212 — Office of Victim Services to have subrogated cause of action against person responsible for crime
• § 54-213 — Award not subject to execution or attachment
• § 54-214 — Annual report to legislature and to appropriations committee
• § 54-215 — Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund
• § 54-216 — Payment for services
• § 54-217 — Expedited processing of a claim
• § 54-218 — Profits derived as result of crime of violence
• § 54-219 — Victim Services Technical Assistance Fund
• § 54-220 — Victim advocates
• § 54-220a — Assignment of victim advocates to assist victims before Board of Pardons and Paroles
• § 54-221 — Appointment of advocates for victims of crime by court
• § 54-222 — Brochure re rights of victims and victim services
• § 54-222a — Duty of peace officer regarding crime victim
• § 54-223 — Failure to afford rights to victim shall not constitute grounds for vacating conviction or voiding sentence or parole determination
• § 54-224 — Liability of state re failure to afford rights to victim
• § 54-225 — Voluntary program for lawyers for protection of persons injured in person or property by civil wrong
• § 54-226 — Definitions
• § 54-227 — Notification of Office of Victim Services and Victim Services Unit within Department of Correction by inmate or sexual offender seeking release or other relief
• § 54-227a — Transferred to Chapter 886,
• § 54-228 — Request by victim, immediate family member of victim or family member of inmate for notification
• § 54-229 — Request by prosecuting authority for notification
• § 54-230 — Notification of victims and other persons by Office of Victim Services when inmate or sexual offender seeks release or other relief or is released from a correctional institution
• § 54-230a — Notification of victims and other persons by Department of Correction when inmate or sexual offender seeks release or other relief
• § 54-231 — Notification of Office of Victim Services by Department of Correction upon release of inmate
• § 54-232 — Disposition of requests for notification received prior to April 1, 1992
• § 54-233 — Compensation of victim of tort occurring prior to July 1, 1993
• § 54-234 — Development of response system for victims of offense of trafficking in persons
• § 54-234a — Display of notice re services for victims of human trafficking at certain public and private establishments and businesses
• § 54-235 — State-wide automated victim information and notification system
• § 54-240 — Definitions
• § 54-240a — Program purpose
• § 54-240b — Application for program participation
• § 54-240c — Certification as program participant
• § 54-240d — Certification card
• § 54-240e — Program address
• § 54-240f — Confidentiality of marriage records
• § 54-240g — Listing on voter registry list
• § 54-240h — Agency use of program address
• § 54-240i — Exemption from use of program address by agency
• § 54-240j — Renewal of program certification
• § 54-240k — Cancellation of program certification
• § 54-240l — Secretary of the State as agent for program participant
• § 54-240m — Confidentiality of records re program participant
• § 54-240n — Nondisclosure of confidential address in criminal or civil proceeding
• § 54-240o — Custody or visitation order in effect prior to or during participation in program
• § 54-250 — Definitions
• § 54-251 — Registration of person who has committed a criminal offense against a victim who is a minor or a nonviolent sexual offense
• § 54-252 — Registration of person who has committed a sexually violent offense
• § 54-253 — Registration of person who has committed a sexual offense in another jurisdiction
• § 54-254 — Registration of person who has committed a felony for a sexual purpose
• § 54-255 — Restriction on dissemination of registration information for certain offenders
• § 54-256 — Responsibilities of courts and agencies in registration process
• § 54-257 — Registry
• § 54-258 — Availability of registration information
• § 54-258a — Warning against wrongful use of registry information
• § 54-259 — Sexual Offender Registration Committee
• § 54-259a — Risk Assessment Board
• § 54-260 — Secs
• § 54-260a — Report on number of registrants being electronically monitored and need for additional resources
• § 54-260b — Criminal investigation of registrants using the Internet
• § 54-261 — Community response education program
• § 54-27 — Transferred to Chapter 890,
• § 54-28 — Transferred Secs
• § 54-280 — Definitions
• § 54-280a — Registration of person convicted of offense committed with a deadly weapon
• § 54-280b — Registration information
• § 54-2a — Issuance of bench warrants of arrest, subpoenas, capias and other criminal process
• § 54-2b — Transferred to Chapter 960,
• § 54-2c — Traffic violator need not appear in court, when
• § 54-2d — Notation in computer network of actions taken by law enforcement agency to execute certain warrants
• § 54-2e — Issuance of rearrest warrant or capias for failure to appear
• § 54-300 — Sentencing Commission
• § 54-301 — Posting of data and evaluation re provisional pardons and certificates of rehabilitation
• § 54-32 — Transferred to Chapter 945,
• § 54-33 — Search warrants for gambling and lottery implements
• § 54-33a — Issuance of search warrant, warrant for tracking device or warrant for foreign corporation records or data
• § 54-33b — Search of person
• § 54-33c — Warrant application, affidavits, execution and return
• § 54-33d — Interference with search
• § 54-33e — Destruction of property
• § 54-33f — Motion for return of unlawfully seized property and suppression as evidence
• § 54-33g — Forfeiture of moneys and property related to commission of criminal offense
• § 54-33h — (Formerly Sec
• § 54-33i — “Journalist”, “news organization” and “news” defined
• § 54-33j — Issuance of search warrant for property of journalist or news organization
• § 54-33k — “Strip search” defined
• § 54-33l — Strip searches
• § 54-33m — Failure to wear seat belt not probable cause for vehicle search
• § 54-33n — Search of school lockers and property
• § 54-33o — Search of vehicle stopped solely for a motor vehicle violation
• § 54-33p — Restrictions on cannabis-related stop or search of a person or motor vehicle
• § 54-36 — Disposition of property held as evidence
• § 54-36a — Definitions
• § 54-36b — Examiner of seized property, appointment, duties
• § 54-36c — Disposition of seized property on order of the examiner of seized property
• § 54-36d — Proceedings under chapters 214, 220 and 490 concerning cigarettes, alcohol and fisheries and game, respectively, exempt from certain licensing and disposition requirements
• § 54-36e — Firearms and ammunition to be turned over to state police
• § 54-36f — Receipt for seized property to be given by law enforcement officials
• § 54-36g — Destruction of controlled drugs, controlled substances and drug paraphernalia held as evidence in criminal proceedings
• § 54-36h — Forfeiture of moneys and property related to illegal sale or exchange of controlled substances or money laundering
• § 54-36i — Drug assets forfeiture revolving account
• § 54-36m — Impoundment of motor vehicle occupied by person arrested for patronizing a prostitute from a motor vehicle
• § 54-36n — Identification and tracing of seized and recovered firearms and ammunition
• § 54-36o — Property derived from identity theft subject to forfeiture to state
• § 54-36p — Forfeiture of moneys and property related to sexual exploitation, prostitution and human trafficking
• § 54-40 — Transferred to Chapter 960,
• § 54-40a — Transferred to Chapter 959,
• § 54-41 — Transferred PART I ARREST AND ARRAIGNMENT Secs
• § 54-41a — Definitions
• § 54-41b — Application for order authorizing interception
• § 54-41c — Information in application
• § 54-41d — Issuance of order
• § 54-41e — Statement by panel on issuance of order
• § 54-41f — Execution of order; progress reports
• § 54-41g — Extensions of order
• § 54-41h — Privileged wire communications; issuance of order and interception prohibited
• § 54-41i — Recording of interception; sealing, custody and destruction
• § 54-41j — Sealing, custody, storage and destruction of applications and orders
• § 54-41k — Service of notice of interception; inspection of intercepted communications, applications and orders; postponement of service
• § 54-41l — Intercepted communication admissible as evidence, when
• § 54-41m — Motion to suppress
• § 54-41n — Report by panel to Chief Court Administrator
• § 54-41o — Reports by state's attorneys
• § 54-41p — Disclosure of contents of wire communication
• § 54-41q — Authority of communication common carrier to intercept, disclose or use wire communication
• § 54-41r — Remedies of party intercepted; defense
• § 54-41s — Illegal possession, sale, distribution of equipment: Class D felony
• § 54-41t — Unauthorized or illegal interception: Class C felony
• § 54-41u — Admissibility of intercepted wire communication obtained pursuant to federal law
• § 54-45 — When grand jury is required
• § 54-45a — Record of grand jury proceedings
• § 54-46 — Prosecution on complaint or information
• § 54-46a — Probable cause hearing for persons charged with crimes punishable by death, life imprisonment without possibility of release or life imprisonment
• § 54-47 — 207 C
• § 54-47a — Compelling testimony of witness
• § 54-47b — Investigatory grand jury
• § 54-47c — Application for investigation into commission of crime
• § 54-47d — Appointment of investigatory grand jury
• § 54-47e — Sealing of order and application
• § 54-47f — Conduct of investigation
• § 54-47g — Finding and record of investigation
• § 54-47h — Report
• § 54-47i — Authority of investigation ordered prior to October 1, 1985
• § 54-48 — Reward for arrest of capital offender or felon
• § 54-49 — Reward for information as to high crime or crime resulting in death of police officer or firefighter
• § 54-5 — Transferred Secs
• § 54-50 — Reward for information as to unlawful disinterment of corpse
• § 54-51 — Reward for information as to theft of motor vehicle, livestock or poultry
• § 54-52 — Determination of claims to reward
• § 54-53 — Release by correctional officials
• § 54-53a — Detention of persons who have not made bail
• § 54-56 — Dismissal of information by court
• § 54-56a — (Formerly Sec
• § 54-56b — Right to dismissal or trial on nolle
• § 54-56c — Request for privileged trial status
• § 54-56d — (Formerly Sec
• § 54-56e — (Formerly Sec
• § 54-56f — Secs
• § 54-56g — Pretrial alcohol education program
• § 54-56h — Consideration of defendant's contribution to Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund or of community service work hours
• § 54-56i — Pretrial drug education and community service program
• § 54-56j — Pretrial school violence prevention program
• § 54-56k — Pretrial account
• § 54-56l — Pretrial supervised diversionary program for persons with psychiatric disabilities and veterans
• § 54-56m — Mediation programs
• § 54-56n — Pretrial and diversionary program data collection and reporting
• § 54-56o — Nolle prosequi in certain family violence cases
• § 54-56p — Program for young persons charged with a motor vehicle violation or alcohol-related offense
• § 54-56q — Pretrial drug intervention and community service program
• § 54-56r — Pretrial impaired driving intervention program
• § 54-57 — Joinder of offenses of the same character
• § 54-58 — Description of money in complaint or information
• § 54-59 — Statement of ownership, partnership or joint tenancy in indictment, information or complaint
• § 54-60 — Allegations in criminal cases
• § 54-61 — Complaints for offenses specified in special acts, ordinances and bylaws
• § 54-62 — Allegation of previous conviction
• § 54-63 — Mode of informing against larceny by embezzlement
• § 54-63a — Definitions
• § 54-63b — Pretrial release of arrested persons
• § 54-63c — 195 C
• § 54-63d — Release by bail commissioner or intake, assessment and referral specialist
• § 54-63e — Bond or promise conditioned on appearance
• § 54-63f — Release after conviction and pending sentence or appeal
• § 54-63g — Appeal from court order re release
• § 54-64 — Police officials and clerks of court to take promise to appear or bond
• § 54-64a — Release by judicial authority
• § 54-64b — Release following arrest on court warrant
• § 54-64c — Notice of appearance after release
• § 54-64d — Release of person taken into custody on a capias
• § 54-64e — Noncriminal behavior as condition of release
• § 54-64f — Violation of conditions of release