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- Title
CONNECTICUT STRIKES AT A COURT "RACKET"
- Authors
Rapport, Victor A.
- Abstract
This article focuses on how two years ago the State of Connecticut set out to correct a "racket" which existed in the enforcement of motor vehicle laws. Involved in the asserted improprieties were the local courts and both organized and unorganized police forces. It is the purpose of this article to present statistical material to indicate some of the background leading up to legislative changes and other material which tends to show certain results achieved by the new laws. Before presenting these data, however, it is desirable to state briefly the nature of the law which made possible an unsavory situation, one which received considerable unfavorable publicity both in Connecticut and in neighboring states. The minor courts of Connecticut were composed of a number of differing types, some created by special action of the General Assembly (the legislature) but most coming under the constitutional provision creating justices of peace. The prosecuting official in these courts was the grand juror.
- Subjects
CONNECTICUT; LAW; MOTOR vehicles; COURTS; JURORS; LEGISLATIVE bodies
- Publication
Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology (08852731), 1941, Vol 31, p583
- ISSN
0885-2731
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1137204