ALBANY – A new law will allow the state to designate sites for centralized, off-hours arraignments of criminal defendants in each county outside New York City, the governor’s office announced Tuesday.
The measure empowers Chief Administrative Judge Lawrence Marks to cut across previous local court jurisidictional lines and authorizes courts to open off-hours to arraign criminal suspects arrested anywhere within their counties.
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