State v. Kenneth K.

Citations

• 232 Conn. App. 657

Syllabus

Convicted, following a jury trial, of criminal violation of a protective order, the defendant appealed to this court. The defendant claimed, inter alia, that the trial court improperly granted the state's motion to join for trial the information charging him with violation of a protective order with a separate information charging him with breach of the peace. Held: This court declined to address whether the trial court abused its discretion in granting the state's motion for joinder because the defendant failed to show that he was substantially prejudiced or harmed by the joinder. The trial court abused its discretion in requiring the defendant to comply with family court orders as a condition of his probation because the condition was overly broad such that it lacked a reasonable connection to the defen- dant's reformation and rehabilitation. This court could not conclude, on the basis of the information the trial court appropriately considered before sentencing the defendant, that the trial court abused its discretion in imposing a forty year standing criminal protec- tive order that prohibited the defendant from coming within 100 yards of his former wife and prohibited contact with her. Argued November 21, 2024—officially released May 20, 2025