State police issued an infraction to Norwich defense attorney Vincent J. Fazzone Tuesday after Fazzone left a bag of marijuana on a bench in the New London Judicial District courthouse.

Reached by phone late Tuesday afternoon, Fazzone, 47, said he would be paying the $150 fine and wanted to put the matter behind him.

“I’m just an attorney in town giving good representation,” he said.

His paralegal, Holly McGregor, took the phone and explained that Fazzone had taken the bag from a client Tuesday morning with a plan to confront the client’s child, to whom it purportedly belonged, later in the day. She said Fazzone forgot about the bag when he went into court.

“He put it in his pocket and forgot about it, and he dropped it out when he stood up,” McGregor said. “He didn’t know until he left and somebody in the courtroom said something to him.”

A judicial marshal seized the plastic bag of marijuana at about 10:30 a.m. after it dropped out of Fazzone’s pocket when he stood up to go into the lockup area to meet with a client. Three judicial marshals and several attorneys were sitting or standing nearby in the well of the courtroom. A marshal called state police, who have jurisdiction in the state courthouse, and a trooper went to the courthouse to investigate.

Fazzone was not detained, having allegedly committed an infraction punishable with a fine rather than a crime that would result in an arrest. He left the courthouse after his clients were called before Judge Hillary B. Strackbein. A trooper called him later in the day and he went to Troop E in Montville, where a state police spokeswoman said he received a ticket for possession of less than four ounces of marijuana.

A police report on the incident said the bag Fazzone dropped “contained approximately two ounces of a green, leafy, plant-like substance suspected to be marijuana.”