Neighbors seem to welcome new arraignment court on West 54th Street.
As a result, officials there took the unusual step of closing some arraignment courts for lack of defendants.
As a result, arraignment courts, where defendants are charged and bail is set, emerged as a choke point in the city's criminal justice system.
The last time Judge Ward sat in the arraignment court seven defendants pleaded guilty.
The goal of the process is to get both the individual and the various records into an arraignment court at the same time as quickly as possible.
But it also reflected the reality of arraignment courts.
As a result, arraignment courts have emerged as a choke point in the city's criminal justice system.
This volume made the Midtown Court one of the busiest arraignment courts in the city.
From sitting in arraignment courts, she says, she developed a mental map of the city's crime spots.
In that process, the names are placed in a wheel, which is then spun by court officers in arraignment courts.