John J. Kelly

Vice President& Instructor

John J. Kelly is a graduate of Providence College and the University of Connecticut School of Law and was admitted to the Bar in 1967. Jack began his twenty-four year career as a Connecticut prosecutor in 1967 and thereafter, held the positions as Assistant Chief Prosecutor, Assistant State's Attorney for New Haven County and State's Attorney for the Judicial District of Ansonia/Milford. He was appointed Chief State's Attorney in 1985 and served in that position until he entered private practice in 1991. Jack has been active in police training since 1972 and he has been a lecturer with the SCJTN since 1982 and was the corporate secretary from 1988 to 1999. He is now its Vice President. Jack was the trial attorney and appellate attorney in State v. Smith, 73 Conn. App. 173 (2002), the first Connecticut Appellate decision concerning Connecticut General Statute Sec. 53a-22 (police use of deadly force). The Court also addressed the issues of the admissibility of expert witness testimony in support of police use of deadly force and a trial judge's charge to the jury concerning police use of deadly force.