Supreme Court of Connecticut March 3, 1998, SC 15791 (State v. Kinchen)

Opinion

PALMER, J.

The sole issue in this appeal, taken by the state with the permission of the trial court,1 is whether the trial court had the authority to dismiss, *692sua sponte, a pending misdemeanor charge against the defendant, Daryl Kinchen, because, in the court’s view, the case was not sufficiently important to warrant the time and expense of a jury trial.