Legal Question in Criminal Law in Connecticut

Re: Criminal charges

The benefit of Accelerated Rehabilitation is that it allows the purpose accused of a crime to enter a program under which they are placed on a period of special probation of up to 2 years. At the end of the probation period, the charges against the accused are dismissed. Thus the benefit is that the accused no longer faces charges, and the end result leaves the accused without a permanent criminal record of the incident.

The program is only available to someone who hasn't been convicted of crime before, and the crime must not be of a serious nature, and it must be likely that the accused is unlikely to offend again. A prosectuor may view the accused criminal acts and believe that AR is not appropriate due to the facts of the case, the effect on a victim, or some other reason. The prosecutor can merely argue against an accused application, the judge makes the ultimate decision of wether or not to grant the program.

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