Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

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For anyone who has been arrested and charged with a crime, one of the first formal steps in the legal process is the arraignment hearing. That’s a pretty unusual word that doesn’t sound like it has ...

Separation of powers, three distinct branches of government appear to be in violation, when I read about the new arraignment procedures for the justice courts of Otsego County. “CAP,” or Centralized ...

Lyons, N.Y. (WHAM) — Wayne County Centralized Arraignment Part (CAP) Court, operational since 2019 and located within the Wayne County Jail, has enhanced the efficiency of the judicial process and ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Monroe County introduced a new system called the Centralized Arraignment Part (CAP) to streamline the arraignment process. Starting Monday, all arrests in the county will be ...