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Connecticut public records · Courts & processing

Courts & case processing

How long cases take to resolve: arrest- and offense-to-sentence time, by court, case type and charge class, plus the backlog and continuance measures that flag courts under pressure.

Live databasedata-through records shown as collected
Median arrest → sentence269 daysmedian of 26,841 cases
Median offense → sentence310 dayswhere offense date recorded
Resolved ≤ 180 days34.6%arrest to sentence
Open > 365 days10,01112-month cohort
…that ended in confinement4,337long-lag cases to prison
Sentenced ≥ 90 days later84.3%continuance proxy
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Time from arrest to sentence

The clearest read on court-crowding pressure: how long cases wait to resolve.

Arrest → sentence · trailing 12 months

Each segment's width is its real share of the case load.

Median lag
269 days
Mean lag
404 days
Resolved ≤ 30 / 90 / 180 days
1,055 / 4,262 / 9,283
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Time from offense to sentence

Where an offense date is recorded, the lag from the earliest offense date on the docket to sentence separates police/filing time from court time.

Median offense → sentence
310 days
Mean offense → sentence
472 days

Offense dates are recorded on a subset of charges; treated as an indicative measure of the portion of total lag attributable to the courts.

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Resolution time by court

Median and mean arrest-to-sentence lag for each court over the trailing 12 months. Wide spread indicates uneven backlog.

CourtCasesMedian lag (days)Mean lag (days)
New Haven GA 232,553170285
Hartford GA 142,346299439
Bridgeport GA 22,344320453
Stamford GA 12,324511703
New Britain GA 152,273291394
Waterbury GA 42,179180274
Meriden GA 71,532164230
Manchester GA 121,360248315
New London GA 101,225277432
Norwich GA 211,089260378
Middletown GA 91,062218331
Torrington GA 18915226334
Danielson GA 11 and JD903317454
Danbury GA 3 and JD874294363
Derby GA 5856289380
Milford GA 22740198292
Rockville GA 19631240395
New Haven JD382566664
Hartford Comm Court255109184
Hartford JD191699838
Bridgeport JD128381623
Waterbury JD123574650
New Britain JD120491606
Stamford JD106796924
Milford JD82704884
New London JDt75516604
Tolland JD63510669
Litchfield JD59578599
Middlesex JD38613778
Waterbury Comm Court1326101
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By case type & charge class

How the mix of criminal versus motor-vehicle dockets and the severity of charges shape resolution time.

Median arrest → sentence by case type

Criminal (CR) and motor vehicle (MV) dockets.

CRCR: 262 · 26.3% of total26226.3%MVMV: 299 · 30% of total29930%OTHEROTHER: 435 · 43.7% of total43543.7%

Median offense → sentence by charge class

AA: 293 · 12% of total29312%CC: 284 · 11.6% of total28411.6%Not recordedNot recorded: 326 · 13.3% of total32613.3%DD: 404 · 16.5% of total40416.5%BB: 371 · 15.2% of total37115.2%UU: 392 · 16% of total39216%EE: 378 · 15.4% of total37815.4%
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Backlog & continuance

Long-lag cases that still end in confinement are the population-forecast risk: they consume court time and, on sentence, feed the census.

Cases open > 365 days (arrest → sentence)
10,011
…that resolved to a confinement term
4,337
Share sentenced ≥ 90 days after arrest
84.3%
Share sentenced ≥ 180 days after arrest
65.7%

Arrest date is used as the proxy for the start of the case (a filing/arraignment timestamp is not published). Offense-date based lags, where available, isolate the court-phase portion.