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2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53a - Penal Code › Chapter 952 - Penal Code: Offenses › Section 53a-321. - Abuse in the first degree: Class C felony.

(a) A person is guilty of abuse in the first degree when such person intentionally commits abuse of an elderly, blind or disabled person or a person with intellectual disability and causes serious physical injury to such elderly, blind or disabled person or person with intellectual disability.
(b) Abuse in the first degree is a class C felony.
(P.A. 03-267, S. 7; P.A. 04-257, S. 89; P.A. 11-129, S. 16.)
History: P.A. 04-257 made a technical change in Subsec. (a), effective June 14, 2004; P.A. 11-129 amended Subsec. (a) to substitute “person with intellectual disability” for “mentally retarded person” and make conforming changes.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53a - Penal Code › Chapter 952 - Penal Code: Offenses › Section 53a-322. - Abuse in the second degree: Class D felony.

(a) A person is guilty of abuse in the second degree when such person: (1) Intentionally commits abuse of an elderly, blind or disabled person or a person with intellectual disability and causes physical injury to such elderly, blind or disabled person or person with intellectual disability, or (2) knowingly commits abuse of an elderly, blind or disabled person or a person with intellectual disability and causes serious physical injury to such elderly, blind or disabled person or person with intellectual disability.
(b) Abuse in the second degree is a class D felony.
(P.A. 03-267, S. 8; P.A. 11-129, S. 17.)
History: P.A. 11-129 amended Subsec. (a) to substitute “person with intellectual disability” for “mentally retarded person” and make conforming changes.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53a - Penal Code › Chapter 952 - Penal Code: Offenses › Section 53a-323. - Abuse in the third degree: Class A misdemeanor.

(a) A person is guilty of abuse in the third degree when such person (1) knowingly commits abuse of an elderly, blind or disabled person or a person with intellectual disability and causes physical injury to such elderly, blind or disabled person or person with intellectual disability, or (2) recklessly commits abuse of an elderly, blind or disabled person or a person with intellectual disability and causes physical injury to such elderly, blind or disabled person or person with intellectual disability.
(b) Abuse in the third degree is a class A misdemeanor.
(P.A. 03-267, S. 9; P.A. 11-129, S. 18.)
History: P.A. 11-129 amended Subsec. (a) to substitute “person with intellectual disability” for “mentally retarded person” and make conforming changes.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-1 and 54-1a. - Criminal jurisdiction of trial justices; of Court of Common Pleas.

Sections 54-1 and 54-1a are repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 8721; 1955, S. 3319d; 1957, P.A. 522, S. 1; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 25, 204; 1961, P.A. 78; 352; 1963, P.A. 177; February, 1965, P.A. 331, S. 35; 1967, P.A. 152, S. 43; 549, S. 8; 630, S. 12; 1971, P.A. 72, S. 15; 870, S. 1; P.A., 74-183, S. 7, 291; P.A. 76-436, S. 515, 681.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-1c. - Admissibility of confession.

Any admission, confession or statement, written or oral, obtained from an accused person who has not been presented to the first session of the court, or on the day specified for arraignment under the provisions of section 54-1g, or who has not been informed of such person's rights as provided by section 54-1b or 54-64b, shall be inadmissible.
(1963, P.A. 126, S. 3; February, 1965, P.A. 436, S. 2; P.A. 76-336, S. 2; P.A. 80-313, S. 28; P.A. 03-19, S. 127.)
History: 1965 act added “or on the day specified in ... section 54-1b”; P.A. 76-336 substituted day “for arraignment under the provisions of section 54-63c” for day specified “in subdivision (1), (2) or (3) of section 54-1b”; P.A. 80-313 added reference to Sec. 54-64b and substituted reference to Sec. 54-1g for reference to Sec. 54-63c; P.A. 03-19 made technical changes, effective May 12, 2003.
Proof of voluntariness of confession prerequisite to its admissibility if made during illegal detention. 151 C. 246, see 371 U.S. 471. Cited. 154 C. 314, 321; 155 C. 124, 133. Confession inadmissible as defendant was not advised he could have a lawyer's services prior to interrogation and that he had right to stop answering questions at any time. 157 C. 384. Cited. 164 C. 402. Admission into evidence of custodial statements not violation of section. 167 C. 408. Cited. 187 C. 6. Exclusionary effects of this statute do not apply to violations of Sec. 54-63c. 195 C. 505. Cited. 236 C. 388; 240 C. 205. Section not applicable to suppress a statement that was elicited from accused before expiration of the first court session when his presentment still would have been timely; legislature's use of past tense in the phrase “has not been presented” evinces an intent that the violation of not presenting the accused person to the court in a timely manner already must have occurred when the statement is obtained in order for section to apply; section was intended to embody federal rules in effect when section was enacted in 1963. 317 C. 1.
Cited. 11 CA 238; 37 CA 252; judgment reversed, see 236 C. 388; 43 CA 209; 44 CA 162. Section renders inadmissible any admission, confession or statement given by an accused person who remains in state custody after the time at which he should have been presented in court; section does not invalidate all statements made by defendant prior to that time due to later, unrelated wrongdoing by the police in prolonging the period of his pre-presentment detention. 145 CA 547; judgment affirmed, see 317 C. 1.
Cited. 2 Conn. Cir. Ct. 573; 3 Conn. Cir. Ct. 346; 5 Conn. Cir. Ct. 35, 40.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-1e. - Election of place of trial when venue is in the geographical area of Derby, Ansonia, Shelton, and Seymour.

Section 54-1e is repealed.
(P.A. 75-578, S. 5; P.A. 76-436, S. 582, 681.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-1g. - Time of arraignment. Violation of protective order, standing criminal protective order or restraining order.

(a) Any arrested person who is not released sooner or who is charged with a family violence crime as defined in section 46b-38a or a violation of section 53a-181c, 53a-181d or 53a-181e shall be promptly presented before the superior court sitting next regularly for the geographical area where the offense is alleged to have been committed. If an arrested person is hospitalized, or has escaped or is otherwise incapacitated, the person shall be presented, if practicable, to the first regular sitting after return to police custody.
(b) Any arrested person who is charged with a violation of section 53a-223, 53a-223a or 53a-223b shall be promptly presented to the superior court next sitting for the geographical area where the offense is alleged to have been committed. If the alleged offense was committed in a geographical area of the Superior Court other than the geographical area where the protective order was issued, the prosecutorial official for the geographical area of the Superior Court where the alleged offense was committed shall notify the prosecutorial official for the geographical area where the protective order was issued of the alleged violation of such protective order. On motion of any party or the court, the prosecution of such offense may be transferred to the superior court for the geographical area where the protective order was issued.
(P.A. 80-313, S. 26; P.A. 86-337, S. 10; P.A. 91-381, S. 5, 7; P.A. 93-75; P.A. 95-214, S. 2; P.A. 12-114, S. 21.)
History: P.A. 86-337 applied provisions to persons charged with a family violence crime as defined in Sec. 46b-38a; P.A. 91-381 added new Subsec. (b) re prompt presentment of arrested person charged with violation of Sec. 53a-110b to superior court where protective order was issued; P.A. 93-75 amended Subsec. (b) by adding procedure for determining geographic area of the superior court where person arrested for violation of protective order shall be prosecuted; P.A. 95-214 amended Subsec. (a) to include persons charged with “a violation of section 53a-181c, 53a-181d or 53a-181e”; P.A. 12-114 amended Subsec. (b) to add reference to violation of Sec. 53a-223a or 53a-223b.
Cited. 236 C. 388; 243 C. 205.
Cited. 11 CA 238; 43 CA 209; 44 CA 162.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-1h. (Formerly Sec. 6-49a). - Arrest by complaint and summons for commission of misdemeanor.

Any person who has been arrested with or without a warrant for commission of a misdemeanor, or for an offense the penalty for which is imprisonment for not more than one year or a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or both, may, in the discretion of the arresting officer, be issued a written complaint and summons and be released on his written promise to appear on a date and time specified. If any person so arrested and summoned fails to appear for trial at the place and time so specified, or on any court date thereafter, a warrant for his rearrest or a capias shall be issued and he shall also be subject to the provisions of section 53a-173.
(1972, P.A. 69, S. 1; P.A. 84-123, S. 1.)
History: Sec. 6-49a transferred to Sec. 54-1h in 1981; P.A. 84-123 added “or on any court date thereafter” and authorized issuance of a capias for person who fails to appear.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-1i. (Formerly Sec. 54-40a). - Duty of law enforcement officer before charging with a crime a person found in unconscious condition.

(a) All law enforcement officers in this state shall make a diligent effort to determine if any person they find in a semiconscious or unconscious condition is wearing an identification bracelet or metal tag, or is carrying an identification card, bearing such person's name and any of the following information: A statement of an illness, such as epilepsy, diabetes or a cardiac condition, which might cause semiconsciousness or unconsciousness, a physician's name or identification of a medication, before such person may be charged with a crime. If any law enforcement officer shall determine that such a person is actually suffering from an affliction which would cause semiconsciousness or unconsciousness, he shall notify such person's physician immediately or have such person immediately transported to a physician or to some facility where the services of a physician are available.
(b) Any person who wilfully and knowingly falsifies such identification or deliberately misrepresents such an illness shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
(P.A. 73-202, S. 1, 2.)
History: Sec. 54-40a transferred to Sec. 54-1i in 1981.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-1l. - Short title: Alvin W. Penn Racial Profiling Prohibition Act.

(a) This section and section 54-1m shall be known as the “Alvin W. Penn Racial Profiling Prohibition Act”.
(b) For the purposes of this section, “racial profiling” means the detention, interdiction or other disparate treatment of an individual solely on the basis of the racial or ethnic status of such individual.
(c) No member of the Division of State Police within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, a municipal police department or any other law enforcement agency shall engage in racial profiling. The detention of an individual based on any noncriminal factor or combination of noncriminal factors is inconsistent with this policy.
(d) The race or ethnicity of an individual shall not be the sole factor in determining the existence of probable cause to place in custody or arrest an individual or in constituting a reasonable and articulable suspicion that an offense has been or is being committed so as to justify the detention of an individual or the investigatory stop of a motor vehicle.
(P.A. 99-198, S. 1; P.A. 03-160, S. 2; P.A. 11-51, S. 134.)
History: P.A. 03-160 inserted new Subsec. (a) providing that section and Sec. 54-1m shall be known as the “Alvin W. Penn Racial Profiling Prohibition Act” and redesignated existing Subsecs. (a) to (c) as new Subsecs. (b) to (d), effective June 26, 2003; pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Department of Public Safety” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection” in Subsec. (c), effective July 1, 2011.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-1n. - Complaint by victim of identity theft. Law enforcement agency's responsibilities.

Any person who believes that such person's personal identifying information has been obtained and used by another person in violation of section 53a-129a of the general statutes, revision of 1958, revised to January 1, 2003, or section 53a-129b, 53a-129c or 53a-129d may file a complaint reporting such alleged violation with the law enforcement agency for the town in which such person resides. Such law enforcement agency shall accept such complaint, prepare a police report on the matter, provide the complainant with a copy of such report and investigate such alleged violation and any other offenses allegedly committed as a result of such violation and shall, if necessary, coordinate such investigation with any other law enforcement agencies.
(P.A. 03-156, S. 7.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-1q. - Court to advise defendant that guilty or nolo contendere plea may have consequence of suspension of driver's license.

The court shall not accept a plea of guilty or nolo contendere from a person in a proceeding with respect to a violation of section 14-110, subsection (b) or (c) of section 14-147, section 14-215, subsection (a) of section 14-222, subsection (a) or (b) of section 14-224 or section 53a-119b unless the court advises such person that conviction of the offense for which such person has been charged may have the consequence of the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles suspending such person's motor vehicle operator's license.
(P.A. 03-233, S. 3.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-1r. - Complaint by protected person re violation of order of protection by electronic or telephonic means. Law enforcement agency's responsibilities.

Any person listed as a protected person on a restraining order, protective order, standing criminal protective order or foreign order of protection who believes that an electronic or telephonic communication received by the person constitutes a violation of section 53a-223, 53a-223a or 53a-223b may file a complaint reporting such alleged violation with the law enforcement agency for the town in which (1) such person resides, (2) such person received the communication, or (3) such communication was initiated. Such law enforcement agency shall accept such complaint, prepare a police report on the matter, provide the complainant with a copy of such report and investigate such alleged violation and shall, if necessary, coordinate such investigation with any other law enforcement agencies and, upon request of the complainant, notify the law enforcement agency for the town in which the complainant resides.
(P.A. 12-114, S. 8.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-1s. - Racial Profiling Prohibition Project Advisory Board. Membership. Duties.

(a) There is established, within available resources, a Racial Profiling Prohibition Project Advisory Board for the purpose of advising the Office of Policy and Management with respect to the adoption of standardized methods and guidelines pursuant to section 54-1m. The board shall be within the Office of Policy and Management for administrative purposes only.
(b) The board shall include the following members:
(1) The Chief State's Attorney, or a designee;
(2) The Chief Public Defender, or a designee;
(3) The president of the Connecticut Police Chiefs Association, or a designee;
(4) The executive director of the Commission on Women, Children, Seniors, Equity and Opportunity, or a designee;
(5) Two members of the Commission on Women, Children, Seniors, Equity and Opportunity, designated by the executive director;
(6) The executive director of the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities, or a designee;
(7) The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection, or a designee;
(8) The Commissioner of Transportation, or a designee;
(9) The director of the Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy at The University of Connecticut, or a designee; and
(10) Such other members as the board may prescribe.
(c) The chairpersons of the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to the judiciary shall select two chairpersons of the board from among the members of the board.
(P.A. 12-74, S. 2; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-3, S. 169; P.A. 19-117, S. 142; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2, S. 26.)
History: P.A. 12-74 effective June 6, 2012; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-3 amended Subsec. (b) by replacing “African-American Affairs Commission” with “Commission on Equity and Opportunity” in Subdiv. (4), replacing reference to executive director of Latino and Puerto Rican Affairs Commission or designee with reference to two members of Commission on Equity and Opportunity designated by the executive director in Subdiv. (5), deleting former Subdiv. (6) re executive director of Asian Pacific American Affairs Commission or designee and redesignating existing Subdivs. (7) to (11) as Subdivs. (6) to (10), effective July 1, 2016; P.A. 19-117 amended Subsec. (b) by replacing “Commission on Equity and Opportunity” with “Commission on Women, Children, Seniors, Equity and Opportunity” in Subdivs. (4) and (5), effective July 1, 2019; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2 amended Subsec. (b)(9) by replacing “Central Connecticut State University” with “The University of Connecticut”.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-1t. - Adoption of policy re police use of electronic defense weapons. Data collection. Reports.

(a) For purposes of this section, “law enforcement agency” means the Division of State Police within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection or any municipal police department, “police officer” means a state police officer or a sworn member of a municipal police department and “electronic defense weapon” has the same meaning as provided in section 53a-3.
(b) (1) Each law enforcement agency that authorizes a police officer employed by such agency to use an electronic defense weapon shall: (A) Not later than January 31, 2015, adopt and maintain a written policy that meets or exceeds the model policy developed by the Police Officer Standards and Training Council regarding the use of an electronic defense weapon; (B) require police officers to document any use of an electronic defense weapon in use-of-force reports; (C) not later than January fifteenth following each calendar year in which an electronic defense weapon is used, prepare an annual report using the form developed and promulgated by the Police Officer Standards and Training Council pursuant to section 7-294cc that details the use of electronic defense weapons by police officers employed by such agency and includes (i) data downloaded from the electronic defense weapons after their use, (ii) data compiled from the use-of-force reports, and (iii) statistics on each such use of an electronic defense weapon, including, but not limited to, (I) the race and gender of each person on whom the electronic defense weapon was used, provided the identification of such characteristics shall be based on the observation and perception of the police officer that used the electronic defense weapon, (II) the number of times the electronic defense weapon was activated and used on such person, (III) the injury, if any, suffered by such person against whom the electronic defense weapon was used, and (IV) if the electronic defense weapon that was used had different usage modes, the mode used; and (D) not later than January 15, 2016, and annually thereafter, submit the report to the Criminal Justice Policy and Planning Division within the Office of Policy and Management.
(2) Not later than January 15, 2016, and annually thereafter, a law enforcement agency that does not authorize police officers employed by such agency to use an electronic defense weapon shall submit a report to the Criminal Justice Policy and Planning Division within the Office of Policy and Management stating that such agency does not authorize its officers to use electronic defense weapons.
(c) The Office of Policy and Management shall post the annual reports submitted pursuant to subsection (b) of this section on its Internet web site.
(P.A. 14-149, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 14-149 effective January 1, 2015.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-2. - Conviction and binding over by trial justice.

Section 54-2 is repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 8725; 1957, P.A. 522, S. 2; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 204.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-2c. - Traffic violator need not appear in court, when. Schedule of fines established.

Section 54-2c is repealed.
(1967, P.A. 429; 1969, P.A. 455; 1971, P.A. 436; P.A. 74-183, S. 128, 291; P.A. 75-577, S. 123, 126.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-2d. - Notation in computer network of actions taken by law enforcement agency to execute certain warrants.

Not later than thirty days after the entry of the issuance of any rearrest warrant or arrest warrant for a violation of probation into the paperless rearrest warrant network, the law enforcement agency for the municipality in which the accused person resides shall, if such network is available and accessible to such agency, enter a notation in such network of the actions, if any, that have been taken by such agency to execute the warrant and apprehend the accused person.
(P.A. 06-99, S. 2.)
See Sec. 54-108c re availability on Internet of information on outstanding arrest warrants for probation violations.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-2e. - Issuance of rearrest warrant or capias for failure to appear.

Unless good cause is shown, no court shall issue a rearrest warrant or a capias for failure to appear as provided in section 53a-173 prior to four o'clock p.m. of the day of the alleged failure to appear.
(P.A. 07-243, S. 3.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-3 and 54-4. - Issue of warrant after arrest. Trial justice may issue criminal process to be served anywhere in the state.

Sections 54-3 and 54-4 are repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 8722, 8723; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 204.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-6 to 54-12. - Criminal jurisdiction of municipal courts. Limit of jurisdiction of municipal courts. Jurisdiction over violations concerning overweight commercial vehicles. Bonds on adjournment of hearing. Copies of files and records for Superior Court and state's attorneys on bindover; notice when proceeding pending on seized property. Appointment of court interpreters in municipal and trial justice court. Appeal from municipal court or trial justice.

Sections 54-6 to 54-12, inclusive, are repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 7579, 8726, 8730, 8731, 8733, 8741; 1953, S. 3096d; 1955, S. 3097d; June, 1955, S. 3096d; November, 1955, S. N229; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 138, 204; 1961, P.A. 179; 1963, P.A. 49; 1971, P.A. 321; P.A. 73-116, S. 16; 73-667, S. 1, 2; P.A. 74-183, S. 130, 291; P.A. 76-336, S. 1; 76-436, S. 521, 681.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-15 and 54-16. - Binding over on probable cause. Jurisdiction of Common Pleas Court on appeals.

Sections 54-15 and 54-16 are repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 8727, 8742; 1949, S. 3320d; November, 1955, S. N230; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 141, 204; 1963, P.A. 642, S. 61.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-17a. - Presentation in one judicial district for offenses charged in various districts where defendant to plead guilty.

When any person is arrested in any judicial district upon a criminal charge within the jurisdiction of the Superior Court and any indictment or information is pending against him in the superior court for one or more other judicial districts, he may, with his consent and that of the state's attorney for each such judicial district, be presented in the judicial district where the first warrant served upon him originated for all of the offenses to which he intends to plead guilty.
(1961, P.A. 251; P.A. 73-116, S. 17; 73-667, S. 1, 2; P.A. 78-280, S. 2, 4, 127.)
History: P.A. 73-116 added references to judicial districts; P.A. 73-667 changed effective date of P.A. 73-116 from October 1, 1973, to April 25, 1973; P.A. 78-280 deleted references to counties.
Cited. 25 CS 202.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-18a to 54-21. - Transfer of criminal cases between Superior and Common Pleas Court. Certain cases to be tried at first term. Search when cruelty is suspected. Search warrants in cases of cruelty to animals.

Sections 54-18a to 54-21, inclusive, are repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 8724, 8745, 8787; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 143; 1961, P.A. 517, S. 70; 1963, P.A. 642, S. 63; 652, S. 10; 1971, P.A. 590; P.A. 73-116, S. 19; 73-667, S. 1, 2; P.A. 74-183, S. 134, 291; P.A. 76-336, S. 10; 76-436, S. 525, 526, 681.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-25 and 54-26. - Release on recognizance. Witnesses in courts of other states.

Sections 54-25 and 54-26 are repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 8746, 8762; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 147; P.A. 76-336, S. 10; P.A. 80-313, S. 61.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-29 to 54-31. - Seizure of obscene literature and gambling implements. Illegal articles and implements to be destroyed. Judges of city courts may act.

Sections 54-29 to 54-31, inclusive, are repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 8752–8754; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 148, 204; 1963, P.A. 652, S. 10.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-33. - Search warrants for gambling and lottery implements.

Section 54-33 is repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 8756; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 149; 1963, P.A. 652, S. 10.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-33b. - Search of person.

(a) A law enforcement official may ask a person if he or she may conduct a search of their person, provided such law enforcement official has reasonable and articulable suspicion that weapons, contraband or other evidence of a crime is contained upon the person, or that the search is reasonably necessary to further an ongoing law enforcement investigation. A law enforcement official who solicits consent to search a person shall, whether or not the consent is granted, complete a police report documenting the reasonable and articulable suspicion for the solicitation of consent, or the facts and circumstances that support the search being reasonably necessary to further an ongoing law enforcement investigation.
(b) A law enforcement official serving a search warrant may, if such official has reason to believe that any of the property described in the warrant is concealed in the garments of any person in or upon the place or thing to be searched, search the person for the purpose of seizing the same. When the person to be searched is a woman, the search shall be made by a female law enforcement official or other woman assisting in the service of the warrant, or by a woman designated by the judge or judge trial referee issuing the warrant.
(1963, P.A. 652, S. 2; P.A. 80-313, S. 9; P.A. 01-72, S. 4; July Sp. Sess. P.A. 20-1, S. 22; P.A. 21-33, S. 6.)
History: P.A. 80-313 rephrased provisions but made no substantive changes; P.A. 01-72 made a technical change for purposes of gender neutrality and added reference to judge trial referee; July Sp. Sess. P.A. 20-1 added Subsec. (a) re consent of a person, designated existing language as Subsec. (b) and made technical changes; P.A. 21-33 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing provision re person's consent to search of person not to constitute justification absent probable cause with provisions re law enforcement official permitted to ask to conduct search provided certain conditions exist and requirement to complete police report documenting suspicion for solicitation of consent or facts and circumstances supporting necessity of search.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-33d. - Interference with search.

Any person who forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates or interferes with any person authorized to serve or execute search warrants or to make searches and seizures while engaged in the performance of his duties with regard thereto or on account of the performance of such duties, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than one year or both; and any person who in committing any violation of this section uses any deadly or dangerous weapon shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than ten years or both.
(1963, P.A. 652, S. 5.)
Cited. 165 C. 239.
Cited. 11 CA 47; 24 CA 330. Act of clenching mouth shut to avert DNA swab constitutes use of physical force to evade search warrant in violation of section. 144 CA 353.
Cited. 30 CS 211.
Cited. 6 Conn. Cir. Ct. 176.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-33e. - Destruction of property.

Any person who, before, during or after seizure of any property by any police officer authorized to make searches and seizures, in order to prevent the seizure or securing of any property named in the warrant by such police officer, breaks, destroys or removes or causes the breaking, destruction or removal of the same, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than one year or both.
(1963, P.A. 652, S. 6.)
Cited. 165 C. 239; 173 C. 450.
Cited. 26 CA 667.
Cited. 30 CS 211.
Cited. 5 Conn. Cir. Ct. 44, 46; 6 Conn. Cir. Ct. 176.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-33h. (Formerly Sec. 53-279). - Arrest of keeper of gambling equipment; seizure and disposition of property.

Section 54-33h is repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 8656; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 191; 1963, P.A. 652, S. 9; 1969, P.A. 169; P.A. 73-455, S. 9.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-33i. - “Journalist”, “news organization” and “news” defined.

For the purposes of this section and sections 54-33a and 54-33j:
(1) “Journalist” means a person engaged in the business of investigating, collecting or writing news, or of supervising such activity, with the intent of publication or presentation or for publication or presentation to the public through a news organization.
(2) “News organization” means (A) an individual, partnership, corporation or other association engaged in the business, whether or not for profit, of (i) publishing a newspaper or other periodical that reports news events and that is issued at regular intervals or has a general circulation; or (ii) providing newsreels or other motion picture news for public showing; or (iii) broadcasting news to the public by wire, radio, television or facsimile; and (B) a press association or other association of individuals, partnerships, corporations or other associations described in subparagraph (A) of this subdivision or in subdivision (1) of this section engaged in gathering news and disseminating it to its members for publication.
(3) “News” means any compilation of facts, theories, rumors or opinions concerning any subject for the purpose of informing the public.
(P.A. 79-14, S. 1; P.A. 80-313, S. 12.)
History: P.A. 80-313 replaced alphabetic Subdiv. indicators with numeric indicators and made corresponding format changes in Subpara. indicators but made no substantive changes.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-33j. - Issuance of search warrant for property of journalist or news organization.

(a) No search warrant, as provided in section 54-33a, may be issued to search any place or seize anything in the possession, custody or control of any journalist or news organization unless such warrant is issued upon probable cause that such person or organization has committed or is committing the offense related to the property named in the warrant or such property constitutes contraband or an instrumentality of a crime.
(b) Nothing in this section shall be construed as limiting the right to subpoena any such evidence if such subpoena is otherwise permitted by law.
(P.A. 79-14, S. 2.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-33k. - “Strip search” defined.

For the purposes of this section and section 54-33l, “strip search” means having an arrested person remove or arrange some or all of his or her clothing or, if an arrested person refuses to remove or arrange his or her clothing, having a peace officer or employee of the police department remove or arrange the clothing of the arrested person so as to permit a visual inspection of the genitals, buttocks, anus, female breasts or undergarments used to clothe said anatomical parts of the body.
(P.A. 80-93, S. 1; P.A. 81-234, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 81-234 amended the definition of strip search to include the removing or arranging of the clothing of an arrested person by a peace officer or an employee of the police department when the arrested person refuses to remove or arrange the clothing.
Section does not address those strip searches that are conducted incident to lawful arrest on a felony charge. 82 CA 111.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-33l. - Strip searches. Procedure.

(a) No person arrested for a motor vehicle violation or a misdemeanor shall be strip searched unless there is reasonable belief that the individual is concealing a weapon, a controlled substance or contraband.
(b) No search of any body cavity other than the mouth shall be conducted without a search warrant. Any warrant authorizing a body cavity search shall specify that the search is required to be performed under sanitary conditions and conducted either by or under the supervision of a person licensed to practice medicine in accordance with chapter 370.
(c) All strip searches shall be performed by a person of the same sex as the arrested person and on premises where the search cannot be observed by persons not physically conducting the search or not absolutely necessary to conduct the search.
(d) Any peace officer or employee of a police department conducting a strip search shall (1) obtain the written permission of the police chief or an agent thereof designated for the purposes of authorizing a strip search in accordance with this section and section 54-33k and (2) prepare a report of the strip search. The report shall include the written authorization required by subdivision (1) of this subsection, the name of the person subjected to the search, the name of any person conducting the search and the time, date and place of the search. A copy of the report shall be provided to the person subjected to the search.
(e) Nothing in this section shall preclude prosecution of a peace officer or employee under any other provision of the general statutes.
(f) Nothing in this section shall be construed as limiting any statutory or common law rights of any person for purposes of any civil action or injunctive relief.
(g) The provisions of this section and section 54-33k shall not apply when the person is remanded to a correctional institution pursuant to a court order.
(P.A. 80-93, S. 2; P.A. 81-234, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 81-234 amended Subsec. (a) to clarify the exception to the prohibition on strip searches and to provide that a person may be strip searched if there is reasonable belief he is concealing contraband, amended Subsec. (b) by replacing “licensed practitioner, as defined in section 20-184a” with “person licensed to practice medicine in accordance with chapter 370”, and amended Subsec. (c) by providing that a strip search shall be performed where it cannot be observed by persons not absolutely necessary to conduct it.
Section does not address those strip searches that are conducted incident to lawful arrest on a felony charge. 82 CA 111. Language of section suggests that a strip search and a body cavity search are two discrete searches and, therefore, when a search constitutes a strip search, it does not necessarily amount to a body cavity search under statute; although the two types of searches appear within same statutory provision, the two terms are used independently of each other. 105 CA 179.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-33m. - Failure to wear seat belt not probable cause for vehicle search.

The failure of an operator of, or passenger in, a private passenger motor vehicle or vanpool vehicle to wear a seat safety belt as required by section 14-100a shall not constitute probable cause for a law enforcement official to conduct a search of such vehicle and its contents.
(P.A. 85-429, S. 7, 8; P.A. 21-175, S. 16.)
History: P.A. 21-175 deleted “front seat”.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-33n. - Search of school lockers and property.

All local and regional boards of education and all private elementary and secondary schools may authorize the search by school or law enforcement officials of lockers and other school property available for use by students for the presence of weapons, contraband or the fruits of a crime if (1) the search is justified at its inception and (2) the search as actually conducted is reasonably related in scope to the circumstances which justified the interference in the first place. A search is justified at its inception when there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that the search will turn up evidence that the student has violated or is violating either the law or the rules of the school. A search is reasonably related in scope when the measures adopted are reasonably related to the objectives of the search and not excessively intrusive in light of the age and sex of the student and the nature of the infraction.
(P.A. 94-115.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-33o. - Search of vehicle stopped solely for a motor vehicle violation.

(a)(1) No law enforcement official may ask an operator of a motor vehicle to conduct a search of a motor vehicle or the contents of the motor vehicle that is stopped by a law enforcement official solely for a motor vehicle violation.
(2) Any search by a law enforcement official of a motor vehicle or the contents of the motor vehicle that is stopped by a law enforcement official solely for a motor vehicle violation shall be (A) based on probable cause, or (B) after having received the unsolicited consent to such search from the operator of the motor vehicle in written form or recorded by body-worn recording equipment or a dashboard camera, each as defined in section 29-6d.
(b) No law enforcement official may ask an operator of a motor vehicle to provide any documentation or identification other than an operator's license, motor vehicle registration, insurance identity card or other documentation or identification directly related to the stop, when the motor vehicle has been stopped solely for a motor vehicle violation, unless there exists probable cause to believe that a felony or misdemeanor offense has been committed or the operator has failed to produce a valid operator's license.
(July Sp. Sess. P.A. 20-1, S. 21.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-33p. - Restrictions on cannabis-related stop or search of a person or motor vehicle.

(a) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, the existence of any of the following circumstances shall not constitute in part or in whole probable cause or reasonable suspicion and shall not be used as a basis to support any stop or search of a person or motor vehicle:
(1) The odor of cannabis or burnt cannabis;
(2) The possession of or the suspicion of possession of cannabis without evidence that the quantity of cannabis is or suspected to be in excess of five ounces of cannabis plant material, as defined in section 21a-279a, or an equivalent amount of cannabis products or a combination of cannabis and cannabis products, as provided in subsection (i) of section 21a-279a; or
(3) The presence of cash or currency in proximity to cannabis without evidence that such cash or currency exceeds five hundred dollars.
(b) Any evidence discovered as a result of any stop or search conducted in violation of this section shall not be admissible in evidence in any trial, hearing or other proceeding in a court of this state.
(c) A law enforcement official may conduct a test for impairment based on the odor of cannabis or burnt cannabis if such official reasonably suspects the operator or a passenger of a motor vehicle of violating section 14-227, 14-227a, 14-227m or 14-227n.
(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-1, S. 18.)
History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-1 effective July 1, 2021.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-34 and 54-35. - Search of person. Condemnation of gambling implements, notice.

Sections 54-34 and 54-35 are repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 8757, 8758; 1961, P.A. 214; 255, S. 1; 1963, P.A. 652, S. 10.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-36. - Disposition of property held as evidence.

Section 54-36 is repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 8759; 1969, P.A. 699, S. 31; P.A. 73-116, S. 22; 73-667, S. 1, 2; P.A. 74-221, S. 9.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-36b. - Examiner of seized property, appointment, duties.

There shall be an examiner of seized property who shall be appointed and be subject to supervision by the Chief Court Administrator of the Judicial Department. The examiner of seized property may prescribe forms and procedures to be used in identifying and labeling seized property, shall recommend to the judges any procedures which may be necessary to implement the provisions of this section, sections 53-278c and 54-36a, may inspect records maintained by clerks of court in connection with accounting for seized property, and may inspect offices where seized property is kept to insure the filing of inventories and compliance with other provisions of said sections. The examiner of seized property shall conduct or contract for any public auction required pursuant to the provisions of section 54-36a, section 54-33g and section 53-278c and, at his discretion, such property may be sold by him to the highest bidder in whatever locality of the state he determines affords the most favorable market. The examiner of seized property may decline the highest bid at any such sale and reoffer the property at a later sale if he considers the bid insufficient. He may dispose of any such property by private sale if, in his opinion, the probable cost of public sale will exceed the value of the property. He may also, at his discretion, dispose of such property to a charitable or educational institution or to a governmental agency or institution.
(P.A. 74-221, S. 7; P.A. 75-530, S. 18, 35; P.A. 76-77, S. 2; P.A. 85-140, S. 6; 85-263, S. 3.)
History: P.A. 75-530 authorized examiner to contract for public auction, allowed sale to highest bidder in locality affording the most favorable market and added provisions authorizing examiner to decline highest bid and hold another sale, to dispose of property by private sale and to dispose of property to charitable, educational or government institution; P.A. 76-77 added reference to Sec. 54-33q; P.A. 85-140 provided that the examiner be appointed and subject to supervision by the chief court administrator rather than the executive secretary of the judicial department; P.A. 85-263 deleted references to Secs. 54-36a(f) and 53-278(c).
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-36c. - Disposition of seized property on order of the examiner of seized property.

If there is no criminal action, property seized prior to October 1, 1974, held by law enforcement agencies in connection with a crime, which has not been claimed by the owner, except property held for disposition pursuant to section 54-33g, shall, upon notification by the police authority, be disposed of on the order of the examiner of seized property if he obtains the consent of the prosecuting official of such court. Property, seized after October 1, 1974, in connection with a crime for which an inventory need not be filed and held by law enforcement agencies for six months and which has not been claimed by the owner, shall be disposed of by an order of the examiner of seized property if he obtains the consent of the prosecuting official of such court. In disposing of property pursuant to this section, the examiner of seized property may order that such property be destroyed or be given to a charitable or educational institution or to a governmental agency or institution; provided, (1) if such property is money, he shall order that it be remitted to the state and be deposited in the General Fund or (2), if such property is a valuable prize, he shall order that it be disposed of by public auction or private sale, in which case the proceeds shall become the property of the state and shall be deposited in the General Fund; provided any person who has a bona fide mortgage, assignment of lease or rent, lien or security interest in such property shall have the same right to the proceeds as he had in the property prior to sale.
(P.A. 75-530, S. 19, 35; P.A. 76-77, S. 3; P.A. 87-294, S. 3.)
History: P.A. 76-77 amended provisions to recognize hearing of Sec. 54-36a created in 1974 and to require that examiner obtain consent of prosecuting officials before disposing of property; P.A. 87-294 amended section to specify that property which is money and sale or auction proceeds be deposited in the general fund.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › Chapter 959 - Court Jurisdiction and Power › Section 54-36d. - Proceedings under chapters 214, 220 and 490 concerning cigarettes, alcohol and fisheries and game, respectively, exempt from certain licensing and disposition requirements.

Sections 21-1, 54-36a, 54-36b and 54-36c, shall not be applicable to the proceedings taken pursuant to chapters 214, 220 and 490.
(P.A. 75-530, S. 23, 35.)