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Conn. Practice Book § 43-9
Use and Disclosure of Reports
The presentence investigation and alternate
incarceration assessment reports shall not be
public records and shall not be accessible to
the public. They shall be available initially to the
parties designated in Section 43-7 for use in the
sentencing hearing and in any subsequent pro -
ceedings wherein the same conviction may be
involved, and they shall be available at all times
to the following:
(1) The Office of Adult Probation;
(2) The correctional or mental health institution
to which the defendant is committed or may be
committed;
(3) The Board of Pardons and Paroles;
(4) The sentence review division of the Superior Court;
(5) The Judicial Review Council;
(6) Any court of proper jurisdiction where it is
relevant to any proceeding before such court.
Such court may also order that the report be made
available to counsel for the parties for the purpose
of such proceeding;
(7) Counsel for the defendant and the prosecuting authority during negotiations relating to other
offenses pending against the defendant or subsequently charged against the defendant;
(8) Counsel for the defendant in a sentence
review hearing or habeas corpus proceeding upon
counsel’s request to the Department of Adult Probation;
(9) Counsel for the defendant and the prosecuting authority in connection with extradition pro -
ceedings; and
(10) Any other person or agency specified by
statute. The prosecuting authority and counsel for
the defendant shall retain a copy of the presen -
tence investigation and alternate incarceration
reports and may use the same in connection with
any matter pertaining to actions by the entities
defined in paragraphs (1) through (9) of this section, or for any other purpose for which permission
is first obtained from any judicial authority. In all
other respects, both the prosecuting authority
and counsel for the defendant shall maintain the
confidentiality of the information contained in the
records. A defendant may obtain a copy of the
presentence and alternate incarceration reports
under proper application to a judicial authority in
the judicial district in which sentence was imposed.
History
(P.B. 1978-1997, Sec. 917.) (Amended June 30, 2008, to take effect Jan. 1, 2009.)
Provenance
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- 2026-09-15
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