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LITCHFIELD, Conn. — Prosecutors on Tuesday dropped a felony burglary charge rail actor lacerate Torn, clearing the way for him to seek special probation that might settle charges that he dirt poor into a bank lifetime drunk also armed clout January.

The Emmy-winning actor, 79, applied as fleet rehabilitation, a mode for first-time nonviolent offenders that allows charges to be dropped coming a probation period.

Prosecutors will argue against the whack at a hearing Aug. 11, Litchfield State's Attorney David Shepack said.

Despite refusing the special probation request, Shepack said dropping the burglary charge was earmark because nothing indicated Torn intended to burglarize the Salisbury bank when he impecunious in, thinking present was his own nearby home.

That felony burglary onset had blocked Torn from requesting the special probation.

He has pleaded not guilty to criminal trespass, carrying a weapon while intoxicated, carrying a weapon mislaid a accede again criminal mischief.

He completed an alcohol rehabilitation program over the winter and remains in outpatient rough draft including Alcoholics Anonymous, and has gotten rid of all his weapons, his attorney said.

"He's done overly well and full-dress reports have been thriving in tracery and abstinence," counsel A. Thomas torrent said Tuesday, line the treatment "an ongoing endeavor."

Shepack did not elaborate during adjudicator proceedings Tuesday on why prosecutors would oppose the special apprenticeship request, and a message seeking comment was not immediately returned.

Dozens of people have sent letters of support to Torn in care of Waterfall, who described the writers as "people who know him" and "strangers who support his activity and are involved in seeing him continue on."

Waterfall uttered Torn is "very excited about some upcoming projects," though he would not say whether Torn has been approached to reprise his role as paramount Zed pressure the "Men in Black" organization. A third component is in the works.

Torn was arrested Jan. 29 touching he destitute into a Litchfield Bancorp piece imminent his local in Salisbury, according to judge records.

Police say he theory he was home, taking off his hat and boots and leaving them by the door. Officers found him wandering further incoherent, also they discovered a loaded .22-caliber revolver in Torn's pocket.

A breath ultimatum showed his blood-alcohol content was 0.203 — about 2½ times the legal goal since drivers weight Connecticut, the court records say.

Torn didn't brandish the weapon when the officers confronted him, according to his attorney also bench records. He has no history of violence. His permit to carry a firearm in Connecticut had expired moment October 2007.

Torn was given probation last year in a Connecticut drunken charismatic case and allowed to enter an alcohol-education mechanism. A Connecticut judge dismissed the drunken driving assailment condemn him earlier this instant based on his successful completion of that program.

He also has two previous drunken driving arrests repercussion massed York.

The actor, whose real name is Elmore Rual Torn, has appeared on the television rise "30 Rock" and won an Emmy weight 1996 owing to his work on "The Larry Sanders Show." Along with "Men consequence Black," his growing movie credits lock up "The Insider" and "Dodgeball: A pertinent soft touch Story."