2013 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 53a - Penal Code
Chapter 952 - Penal Code: Offenses
Section 53a-34 - Unconditional discharge: Criteria; effect.


CT Gen Stat § 53a-34 (2013) What's This?

(a) The court may impose a sentence of unconditional discharge in any case where it is authorized to impose a sentence of conditional discharge under section 53a-29, if the court is of the opinion that no proper purpose would be served by imposing any condition upon the defendant’s release.

(b) When the court imposes a sentence of unconditional discharge, the defendant shall be released with respect to the conviction for which the sentence is imposed without imprisonment, probation supervision or conditions. A sentence of unconditional discharge is for all purposes a final judgment of conviction.

(1969, P.A. 828, S. 34.)

Cited. 9 CA 686. Cited. 12 CA 32. Cited. 32 CA 1. Cited. 34 CA 1. Sec. 53a-31 et seq. cited. 36 CA 440.

Subsec. (a):

Cited. 182 C. 595.

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