AR Proper for Multiple Crimes
Accelerated rehabilitation was properly granted to an individual accused of multiple crimes in connection with two seperate and unrelated incidents occurring approximatley one month apart. The state argued that the charges our of two unrelated incidents of shoplifting that occurred at two seperate retailers. The trial court granted the application.
Upon the successful completion of the program, the court dismissed the charges. The state appealed arguing that the court abused its discretion in granting accelerated rehabilitation because C.G.S. 54-56e could not properly be applied to the Defendant who allegedly committed the crimes during two seperate and unrelated incidents occurring approximately one month apart. The Appellate Court affirmed.
The language in the current version of C.G.S. 54-56e refers to "accellerate rehabilitation of persons accused of a crime or crimes..." The legislature's use of the singular "crime" and plural "crimes" unambigously reflects the legislature's intent that the statute may in the court's discretion be invoked with respect to a Defendant accused of either one or multiple crimes regardless of whether those crimes were temporally or otherwise related.
State v. Rios
Connecticut Appellate Court
Doc. No.: AC29109
