Precludes a local criminal court from issuing a warrant of arrest based on any simplified information when the defendant has not been arraigned and has not come under the control of the court with respect to the charges in the simplified information; provides that this formerly applied only to simplified traffic information.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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6859
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
March 14, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to issuance of a
warrant of arrest when a criminal action has been commenced in a local
criminal court by the filing of a simplified information
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 120.20 of the criminal procedure
law, as amended by chapter 506 of the laws of 2000, the opening para-
graph as amended by section 12 of part WWW of chapter 59 of the laws of
2017, is amended to read as follows:
1. When a criminal action has been commenced in a local criminal court
or youth part of the superior court by the filing therewith of an accu-
satory instrument, other than a simplified [traffic] information,
against a defendant who has not been arraigned upon such accusatory
instrument and has not come under the control of the court with respect
thereto:
(a) such court may, if such accusatory instrument is sufficient on its
face, issue a warrant for such defendant's arrest; or
(b) if such accusatory instrument is not sufficient on its face as
prescribed in section 100.40, and if the court is satisfied that on the
basis of the available facts or evidence it would be impossible to draw
and file an accusatory instrument that is sufficient on its face, the
court must dismiss the accusatory instrument.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01526-01-5
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