Office of the State's Attorney Judicial District of Windham

Welcome to the Office of the State's Attorney for the Judicial District of Windham.

The Windham Judicial District serves 15 towns with about 117,000 residents in the northeastern part of Connecticut. The State's Attorney's office is responsible for the prosecution of all criminal offenses which occur in the Judicial District, which includes the communities of Ashford, Brooklyn, Canterbury, Chaplin, Eastford, Hampton, Killingly, Plainfield, Pomfret, Putnam, Scotland, Sterling, Thompson, Windham and Woodstock.

The Office of the State's Attorney for the Judicial District of Windham office located at Danielson Superior Court prosecutes the more serious cases, mostly those crimes classified under state law as class A or class B felony offenses, from all communities in the Judicial District.

The Geographical Area office, located at the "Part B" Superior Court in Danielson, primarily prosecutes cases involving crimes classified under state law as class C, class D or class E felony offenses as well as all misdemeanor offenses and infractions, including motor vehicle offenses.

State's Attorney Fahey joined the Division of Criminal Justice in 1994 as a Deputy Assistant State’s Attorney in Geographical Area No. 14 in Hartford. In less than a year, he was promoted to the Hartford Judicial District where he served for 23 years trying numerous cases to verdict, including murder, sexual assault, robbery, arson, assault and weapons violations cases. He also served as liaison to the Hartford Shooting Task Force and worked as a Special Assistant United States Attorney. He was honored in 2014 with the Prosecutor of the Year award by the Connecticut Criminal Justice Educational and Charitable Association.

In 2018, Attorney Fahey became Supervisory Assistant State’s Attorney of the Cold Case Unit in the Office of the Chief State’s Attorney where he led the unit through numerous investigations and prosecutions, utilizing innovative scientific techniques and investigatory grand jury presentations for unsolved crimes.

A graduate of Fairfield University, he earned his law degree from Western New England University School of Law.