Responding to climbing arrest-to-arraignment times in Brooklyn, court administrators, who last month shortened weekend arraignment hours throughout the city, have added an eight-hour day shift on Saturdays and Sundays in the borough’s Criminal Court at 120 Schermerhorn St.
The move was necessary, explained Judge Lawrence Marks, the court system’s administrative director, because “it was apparent from the data that we had too few weekend hours in Brooklyn and the only way to remedy that was to resort to overtime.”
This content has been archived. It is available through our partners, LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law.
To view this content, please continue to their sites.
Not a Lexis Subscriber?
Subscribe Now
Not a Bloomberg Law Subscriber?
Subscribe Now
LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law are third party online distributors of the broad collection of current and archived versions of ALM's legal news publications. LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law customers are able to access and use ALM's content, including content from the National Law Journal, The American Lawyer, Legaltech News, The New York Law Journal, and Corporate Counsel, as well as other sources of legal information.
For questions call 1-877-256-2472 or contact us at [email protected]
