Connecticut Criminal Procedure

“Hands down the best book on the market dealing with criminal defense issues in Connecticut. The authors have compiled the essential case law and strategies that every lawyer in Connecticut who touches a criminal case should know.” - James O. Ruane, Esq., President of the Connecticut Criminal Defense Bar Association, 2015-2016

Written by a talented, experienced, and diverse team of lawyers from the judiciary, academia, the offices of state and federal prosecutors, the office of the state public defender, and the private bar.  Follow the process from arrest to post-conviction motions, using the top best practices of Connecticut’s Criminal Bar. 

Only Connecticut Criminal Procedure Incorporates the Most Recent Developments in:

• Danger of eyewitness identifications
• Restrictions existing on the search of the contents of cell phones
• Post-conviction petitions for the discovery of DNA evidence
• Standards for the admission of computer-generated evidence
• The state death penalty

CONTRIBUTORS

ARRESTS AND IDENTIFICATIONS
Shelly R. Sadin, Dean, Quinnipiac University School of Law

CONFESSIONS AND STATEMENTS
Robert Spector, US Attorney's Office, New Haven Office

SEARCH AND SEIZURE
Stanley A. Twardy Jr.,  Day Pitney
Elizabeth Latif,  Day Pitney

GRAND JURY, ARRAIGNMENT, TRANSFERS FROM JUVENILE COURT, BAIL AND PROBABLE CAUSE HEARINGS
Michael A. Gailor, Executive Assistant State's Attorney

DOUBLE JEOPARDY,  PRE- ARREST DELAY, SPEEDY TRIAL, AND PROSECUTORIAL DISCRETION
Pat Tomasiewicz, Fazzano & Tomasiewicz

NOTICE, JOINDER AND SEVERANCE,LIMITATIONS, AND OTHER STATE LAW ISSUES
Harry Weller, Assistant State's Attorney

DISCOVERY AND DEPOSITIONS
Damon Kirschbaum, Law Firm, LLC

DISPOSITION WITHOUT TRIAL
Richard  R. Brown, Brown Paindiris & Scott

COMPETENCE OF THE DEFENDANT
Carl J. Schuman, Judge, Superior Court

RIGHT TO COUNSEL
John Danaher III, Judge, Superior Court

JURY RIGHT, SELECTION, AND MISCONDUCT
Barbara Bailey Jongbloed, Judge, Superior Court

FIFTH AND SIXTH AMENDMENT ISSUES AT TRIAL
Robert J. Enright, Retired partner, McGann, Bartlett & Brown, LLC

PRESENTING THE CASE AT TRIAL - PART I (OPENING STATEMENTS, WITNESSES, PRESENTATION OF EVIDENCE, COMMON RELEVANCY OBJECTIONS AND ISSUES OF ADMISSIBILITY, EXPERT TESTIMONY)
Robert M. Frost   Jr., Frost Bussert, LLC
Erica Barber, Frost Bussert, LLC

PRESENTING THE CASE AT TRIAL – PART II (JURY INSTRUCTIONS, CLOSING ARGUMENT, VERDICT / JUDGMENT)
Robert M. Frost  Jr., Frost Bussert
Erica Barber, Frost Bussert, LLC

SENTENCING
James Bergenn, Shipman & Goodwin

POST-CONVICTION MOTIONS AND PETITIONS
Conrad Ost Seifert, Seifert & Hogan