{"data":{"id":"us-ct/conn.-gen.-stat.-54-65","jurisdiction":"us-ct","citation":"Conn. Gen. Stat. § 54-65","heading":"Procedure when surety believes principal intends to abscond. Application for release of surety from bond if principal absconds.","body":"(a) Any surety in a recognizance in criminal proceedings, who believes that such surety's principal intends to abscond, shall apply to a judge of the Superior Court, produce such surety's bail bond or evidence of being a surety, and verify the reason of such surety's application by oath or otherwise. Thereupon, the judge shall immediately grant a mittimus, directed to a proper officer or indifferent person, commanding such officer or indifferent person immediately to arrest the principal and commit the principal to a community correctional center. The Community Correctional Center Administrator shall receive the principal and retain the principal in a community correctional center until discharged by due order of law. The surrender of the principal shall be a full discharge of the surety upon such surety's bond or recognizance.\n(b) If the principal of a surety in a recognizance in criminal proceedings absconds, such surety may apply, prior to six months after the date the bond is ordered forfeited, to a judge of the Superior Court to be released from such bond. The judge may release such surety from such bond for good cause shown.","path":["TITLE 54. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE","CHAPTER 960*. INFORMATION, PROCEDURE AND BAIL"],"source_url":"https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_960.htm#sec_54-65","current_through":"Revised to January 1, 2026 (2026 Supplement to the General Statutes of Connecticut, applied over the base revision of January 1, 2025)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T19:07:19Z","sha256":"d6d11ac1ade46ac5d09d7a2ca0d528ec4dc10a91ed3f88fb111de8f5ac06462d","source_id":"us-ct","stale":false,"prev":"us-ct/conn.-gen.-stat.-54-64g","next":"us-ct/conn.-gen.-stat.-54-65a"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}