Court Opinion

ID: 9703144
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 23:42:37.010861+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:21:46.039549
License: Public Domain

Loiselle, J.
(dissenting). I cannot agree that the pretrial denial of youthful offender status is a final judgment. In a criminal case, the imposition of sentence is the judgment of the court. State v. Moore, 158 Conn. 461, 262 A.2d 166; State v. Smith, 149 Conn. 487, 489, 181 A.2d 446. The defendant has not yet been convicted as an adult since the court’s denial of his request for youthful offender status. Subsequent criminal proceedings may result in a wide variety of possible dispositions of the charges lodged against the defendant, including the granting of youthful offender status under General Statutes § 54-76'g1 even though it was refused before trial. *102If a final adjudication of guilt is made, the defendant, in an appeal to this court, may raise the claim he now advances in the present appeal. If error is found and youthful offender status is granted, all records will be sealed and the information or complaint becomes a nullity.
The action of the court in denying youthful offender status is not, in my opinion, a final judgment and, consequently, I would dismiss the appeal.
In this opinion Bogdanski, J., concurred.

 “[General Statutes] See. 54-76g. judgment of youthful offender status. If the defendant enters a plea of guilty to the charge of being a youthful offender or if, after trial, the court finds that he committed the acts charged against him in the information or complaint, the court shall adjudge the defendant to be a youthful offender and the information or complaint shall be considered a nullity and of no force or effect.” (Emphasis added.)