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CT Gen Stat § 54-155 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 54 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 962 - Costs, Fees and Expenses in Criminal Proceedings Or Prosecutions|Section 54-155 - Expenses of requisitions of fugitives.

 When a requisition is made by the governor upon the executive authority of another state for the delivery of any fugitive from justice, the necessary expenses of such requisition and of the removal of such fugitive shall be ascertained and allowed by the superior court for the judicial district within which the crime charged is alleged to have been committed, and shall be paid from the appropriation for the Division of Criminal Justice, if application therefor is made within one year after such expenses have been incurred.(1949 Rev., S. 8854; P.A. 73-122, S. 19, 27; P.A. 80-313, S. 52.)History: P.A. 73-122 added reference to judicial districts and specified that expenses incurred under section are to be paid from criminal justice division appropriations rather than “by the state”; P.A. 80-313 deleted references to counties in accordance with provisions of P.A. 76-436 and P.A. 78-28.
CT Gen Stat § 54-156 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 54 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 963 - Fresh Pursuit|Section 54-156 - Pursuit of suspected criminals.

 (a) Any member of a duly organized state, county or municipal peace unit of another state of the United States who enters this state in fresh pursuit, and continues within this state in such fresh pursuit, of a person, in order to arrest him on the ground that he is believed to have committed a felony in such other state, shall have the same authority to arrest and hold such person in custody as has any member of any duly organized state, county or municipal peace unit of this state to arrest and hold in custody a person on the ground that he is believed to have committed a felony in this state.(b) If an arrest is made in this state by an officer of another state in accordance with the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, he shall, without unnecessary delay, take the person arrested before a judge of the superior court for the judicial district in which the arrest was made, who shall conduct a hearing for the purpose of determining the lawfulness of the arrest. If such judge determines that the arrest was lawful, he shall commit the person arrested to await for a reasonable time the issuance of an extradition warrant by the Governor of this state or admit him to bail for such purpose. If such judge determines that the arrest was unlawful, he shall discharge the person arrested.(c) Subsection (a) of this section shall not be construed so as to make unlawful any arrest in this state which would otherwise be lawful.(d) For the purpose of this section the word “state” shall include the District of Columbia.(e) The term “fresh pursuit” as used in this section shall include fresh pursuit as defined by the common law, and also the pursuit of a person who has committed a felony or who is reasonably suspected of having committed a felony. It shall also include the pursuit of a person suspected of having committed a supposed felony, though no felony has actually been committed, if there is reasonable ground for believing that a felony has been committed. Fresh pursuit, as used herein, shall not necessarily imply instant pursuit, but pursuit without unreasonable delay.(f) The provisions of this section shall apply only to those states which by their laws grant similar rights to the duly constituted officers of this state.(1949 Rev., S. 8870; P.A. 73-116, S. 31; 73-667, S. 1, 2; P.A. 82-472, S. 148, 183; P.A. 05-288, S. 189.)History: P.A. 73-116 added reference to judicial districts in Subsec. (b); P.A. 73-667 changed effective date of P.A. 73-116 from October 1, 1973, to April 25, 1973; P.A. 82-472 deleted obsolete reference to counties; P.A. 05-288 made a technical change in Subsecs. (b) and (c), effective July 13, 2005.Charges of several offenses, if they are of the same character, shall be tried together unless the court shall order otherwise. 139 C. 234.
CT Gen Stat § 54-157 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 54 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 964 - Uniform Criminal Extradition Act|Section 54-157 - Definitions.

 Where appearing in this chapter, the term “Governor” includes any person performing the functions of Governor by authority of the law of this state. The term “executive authority” includes the Governor and any person performing the functions of Governor in a state other than this state. The term “state”, referring to a state other than this state, includes any other state or territory, organized or unorganized, of the United States of America.(1957, P.A. 362, S. 1.)Annotations to former statute:One who escapes from imprisonment considered still to be “charged with crime” within meaning of statute. 68 C. 441; 105 C. 374. What crimes included. 84 C. 370; 92 C. 542; 100 C. 292; 105 C. 374; 109 C. 404. One residing in Connecticut as a paroled prisoner of California is not immune from liability to extradition by Michigan for a crime committed there. 105 C. 374.Annotations to present section:Cited. 186 C. 404; 190 C. 631.Cited. 26 CA 254.
CT Gen Stat § 54-158 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 54 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 964 - Uniform Criminal Extradition Act|Section 54-158 - Governor's duty to arrest and deliver up fugitive.

 Subject to the provisions of this chapter, the provisions of the Constitution of the United States controlling, and any and all acts of Congress enacted in pursuance thereof, it is the duty of the Governor of this state to have arrested and delivered up to the executive authority of any other state of the United States any person charged in that state with treason, felony or other crime, who has fled from justice and is found in this state.(1957, P.A. 362, S. 2.)Cited. 163 C. 394; 186 C. 404; 190 C. 631; 193 C. 116.Cited. 3 CA 512.Words “or other crime” necessarily include misdemeanors. 25 CS 179.
CT Gen Stat § 54-159 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 54 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 964 - Uniform Criminal Extradition Act|Section 54-159 - Requirements for recognition of extradition demand.

 No demand for the extradition of a person charged with crime in another state shall be recognized by the Governor unless in writing alleging, except in cases arising under section 54-162, that the accused was present in the demanding state at the time of the commission of the alleged crime, and that thereafter he fled from the state, and accompanied by a copy of an indictment found or by information supported by affidavit in the state having jurisdiction of the crime, or by a copy of an affidavit made before a magistrate there, together with a copy of any warrant which was issued thereupon; or by a copy of a judgment of conviction or of a sentence imposed in execution thereof, together with a statement by the executive authority of the demanding state that the person claimed has escaped from confinement or has broken the terms of his bail, probation or parole. The indictment, information or affidavit made before the magistrate must substantially charge the person demanded with having committed a crime under the law of that state; and the copy of indictment, information, affidavit, judgment of conviction or sentence must be authenticated by the executive authority making the demand.(1957, P.A. 362, S. 3.)As long as copy of judgment recited plaintiff's conviction and sentence as second offender, copy of information upon which he was presented as second offender not essential to validity of extradition request. 149 C. 73. Cited. 157 C. 407; 161 C. 329; 186 C. 404; 188 C. 364; 190 C. 631; 193 C. 270; 194 C. 702. Provisions of Sec. 1-36 not applicable to extradition documentation. 195 C. 465. Cited. 196 C. 557; 201 C. 162.Recognition of extradition requests under federal law and this statute discussed. 3 CA 512. Cited. 26 CA 254; 33 CA 41; 36 CA 678.Affiant's statement that she “believes” plaintiff to be the perpetrator of the crimes charged in Florida is not a substantial charge hereunder and writ of habeas corpus releasing plaintiff was granted. 31 CS 412. Implements Art. IV, Sec. 2 of U.S. Constitution; person demanded may resist extradition by proving, in habeas corpus proceeding, that he was not present in demanding state at time of alleged offense and is, therefore, not a fugitive from its justice. 34 CS 78. Judicial finding of probable cause should be explicitly made. 40 CS 179. Cited. 42 CS 569.
CT Gen Stat § 54-160 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 54 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 964 - Uniform Criminal Extradition Act|Section 54-160 - State's attorney and prosecuting attorney to assist Governor.

 When a demand is made upon the Governor of this state by the executive authority of another state for the surrender of a person so charged with crime, the Governor may call upon any state's attorney or prosecuting attorney in this state to investigate or assist in investigating the demand, and to report to him the situation and circumstances of the person so demanded, and whether he ought to be surrendered.(1957, P.A. 362, S. 4; P.A. 75-221.)History: P.A. 75-221 added reference to prosecuting attorneys.Cited. 186 C. 404; 190 C. 631; 234 C. 539.
CT Gen Stat § 54-161 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 54 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 964 - Uniform Criminal Extradition Act|Section 54-161 - Return to this state of person imprisoned or held in another state.

 When it is desired to have returned to this state a person charged in this state with a crime, and such person is imprisoned or is held under criminal proceedings then pending against him in another state, the Governor of this state may agree with the executive authority of such other state for the extradition of such person before the conclusion of such proceedings or his term of sentence in such other state, upon condition that such person be returned to such other state at the expense of this state as soon as the prosecution in this state is terminated. The Governor of this state may also surrender on demand of the executive authority of any other state any person in this state who is charged in the manner provided in section 54-179 with having violated the laws of the state whose executive authority is making the demand, even though such person left the demanding state involuntarily.(1957, P.A. 362, S. 5.)Cited. 186 C. 404; 190 C. 631.Plain language of section makes it clear that Connecticut's extradition law does not make it mandatory to extradite a nonfugitive; section governs extradition of persons who have been removed involuntarily from the demanding state by government compulsion and such persons properly are treated as nonfugitives. 88 CA 178.
CT Gen Stat § 54-162 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 54 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 964 - Uniform Criminal Extradition Act|Section 54-162 - Return to another state of person whose act in this state caused crime.

 The Governor of this state may also surrender, on demand of the executive authority of any other state, any person in this state charged in such other state in the manner provided in section 54-159 with committing an act in this state, or in a third state, intentionally resulting in a crime in the state whose executive authority is making the demand, and the provisions of this chapter not otherwise inconsistent shall apply to such cases, even though the accused was not in that state at the time of the commission of the crime and has not fled therefrom.(1957, P.A. 362, S. 6.)Cited. 157 C. 414; 186 C. 404; 190 C. 631; 201 C. 162.Governor of rendering state exercises informed legal discretion, as extradition is not required by Art. IV, Sec. 2 of the U.S. Constitution; where both governors falsely believed person was a fugitive, extradition will not be granted under section and person must be released, as discretion was not exercised. 34 CS 78.
CT Gen Stat § 54-163 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 54 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 964 - Uniform Criminal Extradition Act|Section 54-163 - Arrest warrant signed by Governor.

 If the Governor decides that the demand should be complied with, he shall sign a warrant of arrest, which shall be sealed with the state seal, and be directed to any peace officer or other person whom he may think fit to entrust with the execution thereof. The warrant shall substantially recite the facts necessary to the validity of its issuance.(1957, P.A. 362, S. 7.)Procedure before Governor and effect of issuance of warrant by him. 78 C. 150; 84 C. 370; 160 U.S. 231. Warrant necessary for arrest under Uniform Criminal Extradition Act. 146 C. 509. Cited. 157 C. 38. In habeas corpus challenging detention under warrant, indigent plaintiff entitled to assistance to assert his legal rights. Id., 403. Cited. 161 C. 329; 163 C. 394; 168 C. 274; 180 C. 153; 182 C. 470; 186 C. 404; 190 C. 631; 201 C. 162.Cited. 26 CS 469.
CT Gen Stat § 54-164 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 54 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 964 - Uniform Criminal Extradition Act|Section 54-164 - Authorization under warrant.

 Such warrant shall authorize the peace officer or other person to whom directed to arrest the accused at any time and any place where he is found within the state and to command the aid of all peace officers or other persons in the execution of the warrant, and to deliver the accused, subject to the provisions of this chapter, to the duly authorized agent of the demanding state.(1957, P.A. 362, S. 8.)Cited. 186 C. 404; 190 C. 631.
CT Gen Stat § 54-165 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 54 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 964 - Uniform Criminal Extradition Act|Section 54-165 - Power of arresting officer.

 Every such officer or other person empowered to make the arrest shall have the same authority, in arresting the accused, to command assistance therein as peace officers have by law in the execution of any criminal process directed to them, with like penalties against those who refuse their assistance.(1957, P.A. 362, S. 9.)Cited. 186 C. 404; 190 C. 631.
CT Gen Stat § 54-166 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 54 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 964 - Uniform Criminal Extradition Act|Section 54-166 - Appearance of accused in court. Habeas corpus.

 No person arrested upon such warrant shall be delivered over to the agent whom the executive authority demanding him has appointed to receive him unless he is first taken forthwith before a judge of any court having criminal jurisdiction in this state, who shall inform him of the demand made for his surrender and of the crime with which he is charged, and that he has the right to demand and procure legal counsel; and if the prisoner or his counsel states that he or they desire to test the legality of his arrest, the judge of such court shall fix a reasonable time to be allowed him within which to apply for a writ of habeas corpus. When such writ is applied for, notice thereof, and of the time and place of hearing thereon, shall be given to the state's attorney of the county in which the arrest is made and in which the accused is in custody, and to the agent of the demanding state.(1957, P.A. 362, S. 10; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 156.)History: 1959 act deleted reference to trial justice.Prior to 1960: Court of Common Pleas may, in its discretion, admit prisoner to bail pending appeal from its decision dismissing writ of habeas corpus. 100 C. 291. Demanding state is forum in which issue of violation of due process must be raised; argument re arrest must be confined to legalities. 151 C. 155. Indigent must be afforded means to assert his rights on such hearings. 157 C. 403. Cited. 159 C. 150. United States court will not ordinarily issue writ pending final determination of case in state courts. 160 U.S. 231. Cited. 171 C. 366; 186 C. 404; 188 C. 364; 190 C. 631; 193 C. 270; 196 C. 309; 218 C. 791.Scope and limits of the hearing on habeas corpus discussed; in habeas corpus proceeding, plaintiff argued that his return to North Carolina would be in violation of his constitutional rights, particularly those relating to cruel and unusual punishment, excessive fines and right to counsel; held that, if his constitutional rights were violated, his remedy lies in an appeal from the decision of the North Carolina court. 21 CS 12.
CT Gen Stat § 54-167 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 54 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 964 - Uniform Criminal Extradition Act|Section 54-167 - Penalty for failure of officer to present accused in court.

 Any officer who delivers to the agent for extradition of the demanding state a person in his custody under the Governor's warrant, in wilful disobedience to section 54-166, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or be imprisoned not more than six months or both.(1957, P.A. 362, S. 11.)Cited. 186 C. 404; 190 C. 631.
CT Gen Stat § 54-168 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 54 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 964 - Uniform Criminal Extradition Act|Section 54-168 - Confinement, when.

 The officer or person executing the Governor's warrant of arrest, or the agent of the demanding state to whom the prisoner has been delivered, may, when necessary, confine the prisoner in any community correctional center or in the jail of any city through which he passes; and the Community Correctional Center Administrator or the keeper of such jail shall receive and safely keep the prisoner until the officer or person having charge of him is ready to proceed on his route, such officer or person being chargeable with the expense of keeping. The officer or agent of a demanding state to whom a prisoner has been delivered following extradition proceedings in another state, or to whom a prisoner has been delivered after waiving extradition in such other state, and who is passing through this state with such a prisoner for the purpose of immediately returning such prisoner to the demanding state may, when necessary, confine the prisoner in any community correctional center or in the jail of any city through which he passes; and the Community Correctional Center Administrator or keeper of such jail shall receive and safely keep the prisoner until the officer or agent having charge of him is ready to proceed on his route, such officer or agent being chargeable with the expense of keeping; provided such officer or agent shall produce and show to the Community Correctional Center Administrator or the keeper of such jail satisfactory written evidence of the fact that he is actually transporting such prisoner to the demanding state after a requisition by the executive authority of such demanding state. Such prisoner shall not be entitled to demand a new requisition while in this state.(1957, P.A. 362, S. 12; 1963, P.A. 642, S. 82; 1969, P.A. 297.)History: 1963 act substituted state jail for county jail and included jail administrator; 1969 act replaced jails and jail administrators with community correctional centers and their administrators.Cited. 186 C. 404; 190 C. 631.
CT Gen Stat § 54-169 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 54 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 964 - Uniform Criminal Extradition Act|Section 54-169 - Arrest warrant of judge.

 Whenever any person within this state is charged on the oath of any credible person before any judge of any court of this state having criminal jurisdiction with the commission of any crime in any other state and, except in cases arising under section 54-162, with having fled from justice, or having been convicted of a crime in that state and having escaped from confinement, or having broken the terms of his bail, probation or parole, or whenever complaint has been made before such judge in this state setting forth on the affidavit of any credible person in another state that a crime has been committed in such other state and that the accused has been charged in such state with the commission of the crime and, except in cases arising under section 54-162, has fled from justice, or with having been convicted of a crime in that state and having escaped from confinement, or having broken the terms of his bail, probation or parole, and is believed to be in this state, the judge shall issue a warrant directed to any peace officer commanding him to apprehend the person named therein, wherever he may be found in this state, and to bring him before the same or any other judge or court who or which may be available in or convenient of access to the place where the arrest may be made, to answer the charge or complaint and affidavit, and a certified copy of the sworn charge or complaint and affidavit upon which the warrant is issued shall be attached to the warrant.(1957, P.A. 362, S. 13; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 157.)History: 1959 act deleted references to trial justice.Warrant necessary for arrest under Uniform Criminal Extradition Act. 146 C. 509. Cited. 157 C. 38; 186 C. 404; 190 C. 631; 193 C. 116; Id., 270.Cited. 26 CS 469.
CT Gen Stat § 54-170 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 54 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 964 - Uniform Criminal Extradition Act|Section 54-170 - Arrest without warrant.

 The arrest of a person may be lawfully made also by any peace officer or a private person, without a warrant, upon reasonable information that the accused stands charged in the courts of a state with a crime punishable by death or imprisonment for a term exceeding one year, but when so arrested the accused shall be taken before such a judge with all practicable speed and complaint shall be made against him under oath setting forth the ground for the arrest as in section 54-169; and thereafter his answer shall be heard as if he had been arrested on a warrant.(1957, P.A. 362, S. 14; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 196.)History: 1959 act deleted reference to trial justice.Cited. 186 C. 404; 190 C. 631; 193 C. 270.
CT Gen Stat § 54-171 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 54 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 964 - Uniform Criminal Extradition Act|Section 54-171 - Commitment pending Governor's warrant.

 If from the examination before the judge it appears that the person held is the person charged with having committed the crime alleged and, except in cases arising under section 54-162, that he has fled from justice, the judge shall, by a warrant reciting the accusation, commit him to a community correctional center for such a time, not exceeding thirty days and specified in the warrant, as will enable the arrest of the accused to be made under a warrant of the Governor on a requisition of the executive authority of the state having jurisdiction of the offense, unless the accused gives bail as provided in section 54-172, or until he is legally discharged.(1957, P.A. 362, S. 15; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 158; 1969, P.A. 297.)History: 1959 act deleted reference to trial justice; 1969 act substituted “community correctional center” for “jail”.Cited. 180 C. 153; 186 C. 404; 190 C. 631.
CT Gen Stat § 54-172 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 54 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 964 - Uniform Criminal Extradition Act|Section 54-172 - Allowance and conditions of bail bond.

 Unless the offense with which the prisoner is charged is shown to be an offense punishable by death or life imprisonment under the laws of the state in which it was committed, such a judge in this state may admit the person arrested to bail by bond, with sufficient sureties, and in such sum as he deems proper, conditioned for his appearance before him at a time specified in such bond, and for his surrender, to be arrested upon the warrant of the Governor of this state.(1957, P.A. 362, S. 16; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 159.)History: 1959 act deleted reference to trial justices.Court may, in its discretion, admit accused to bail pending appeal from dismissal of writ of habeas corpus. 100 C. 297. Under Uniform Criminal Extradition Act, judge may admit to bail a person arrested as a fugitive from another state pending issuance of Governor's warrant in extradition proceeding unless the offense is punishable by death or life imprisonment under law of the demanding state; it is silent, however, concerning authority of court or judge to admit a fugitive to bail after Governor's warrant has been signed. 171 C. 366. Cited. 186 C. 404; 190 C. 631.