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All Arraignments Now At County Jail

From Hometown Oneonta, Freeman’s Journal All Arraignments Now At County Jail State Mandate Requires Hiring Of 7 More Local Public Defenders By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com TOWN OF MIDDLEFIELD – Otsego County’s new centralized court at the county jail in the Town of Middlefield means no more 3 a.m. phone calls seeking arraignments from Town of Otsego Judge Gary Kuch. “I’ve had nights where I’ve been called in and we have to call around, and then wait 45…
October 27, 2019

County Board Endorses Arraigning All Suspects In A Single Courtroom

County Board Endorses Arraigning All Suspects In A Single Courtroom Jail-Lobby Renovations Now Completed 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…
September 4, 2019

PUTTING THE COMMUNITY BACK INTO THE NEWSPAPER

For a limited time, new annual subscriptions to the hard copy of “The Freeman’s Journal” or “Hometown Oneonta” (which also includes unlimited access to AllOtsego.com), or digital-only access to AllOtsego.com, can also give back to one of their favorite Otsego County charitable organizations.

$5.00 of your subscription will be donated to the nonprofit of your choice: Friends of the Feral-TNR, Super Heroes Humane Society, or Susquehanna Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 

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