Bill Text: CT HB05527 | 2016 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning Crimes Committed While On Pretrial Release.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-07 - File Number 533 [HB05527 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2016-HB05527-Comm_Sub.html

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General Assembly		Substitute Bill No. 5527
February Session, 2016		*_____HB05527JUD___032216____*

AN ACT CONCERNING CRIMES COMMITTED WHILE ON PRETRIAL RELEASE.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Subsection (f) of section 54-142a of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2016):

(f) Upon motion properly brought, the court or a judge thereof, if such court is not in session, [may] shall order disclosure of such records (1) to a defendant in an action for false arrest arising out of the proceedings so erased, [or] (2) to the prosecuting attorney, [and defense counsel] defendant and court in connection with any perjury or false statement charges which the prosecutor alleges may have arisen from the testimony elicited [during the trial] from a defendant or witness in court, or (3) to the prosecuting attorney, defendant and court in connection with the prosecution of a person for committing a crime while on release or for violating the conditions of release in a case that was subsequently nolled or dismissed. Such disclosure of such records is subject also to any records destruction program pursuant to which the records may have been destroyed. The jury charge in connection with erased offenses may be ordered by the judge for use by the judiciary, provided the names of the accused and the witnesses are omitted therefrom.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	October 1, 2016	54-142a(f)

Statement of Legislative Commissioners:

In Section 1(f)(3), "for the prosecution" was changed to "in connection with the prosecution" for consistency with existing statute.

JUD

Joint Favorable Subst. -LCO