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County Board Endorses

Arraigning All Suspects

In A Single Courtroom

Jail-Lobby Renovations Now Completed

Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. discusses renovations to the county jail's lobby to accommodate a central courtroom. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)

By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com

COOPERSTOWN – It was pro-forma, but the Board of Representatives today approved a resolution supporting centralized arraignment in Otsego County, which it is mandated by the state to do regardless.

Under the acronyms CAFA and CAP, which grew out of concern that suspects were being arraigned without proper counsel, any arraignment for a crime by any police agency operating in the county will be done as of Oct. 1 in the lobby of the county jail.

CAFA is the state acronym for “counsel at the first appearance” and CAP is “centralized arraignment part.”

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