New York · New York Criminal Procedure Law (CPL)
N.Y. Crim. Proc. Law § 170.25: Divestiture of jurisdiction by indictment; removal of case to superior court at defendant's instance
What this law says, in plain English
This statute establishes a procedural mechanism allowing defendants charged with misdemeanors in local court to request that a superior court order the case be prosecuted by indictment instead, and prescribes the process for doing so.
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