Guinade v. State

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that “Practice Book rules do not ordinarily define subject matter jurisdiction” and that “[t]he defendant . . . waived his right to contest the defective procedure [under the rules of practice] by failing to object [in the trial court]”
• \[t]he Superior Court hearing a criminal matter acquires subject matter jurisdiction from its authority as a constitutional court of unlimited jurisdiction\ [internal quotation marks omitted]
• “the subject matter jurisdiction over a probation revocation proceeding derives from the original presentment of the information”
• court may raise issue of subject matter jurisdiction sua sponte because it “involves the authority of a court to adjudicate the type of controversy presented by the action before it”
• “[j]urisdiction involves the power in a court to hear and determine the cause of action presented to it and its source is the constitutional and statutory provisions by which it is created” [internal quotation marks omitted]
• rules of practice do not ordinarily define subject matter jurisdiction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).