NYLE - Criminal Law and Procedure Questions & Answers 2025 Review, Exams of Law

NYLE - Criminal Law and Procedure Questions & Answers 2025 Review Criminal Court Subject Matter Jurisdiction - ANS-✔✔The Criminal Procedure Law divides New York courts into two categories: superior courts (which include Supreme Court and County Court) and local criminal courts (which include city courts, town courts, district courts and the New York City Criminal Court). Violations and misdemeanors are generally tried in local criminal courts and felonies are tried in County Court or Supreme Court. A felony may be initiated by the filing of an information or complaint in a local criminal court. However, in order try a defendant for a felony, it must ultimately be prosecuted by an indictment filed by the grand jury or a defendant's consent to waive indictment and proceed by a superior court information (see NY Const art I, § 6). Supreme Court: NY Const art VI, § 7; CPL 10.20, 10.30; People v Correa, 15 NY3d 213 (2010). - ANS-✔✔