New York Speeding Misdemeanor
2007
In New York State, for what crimes can the police arrest you? Can they do it for just a violation?
A violation is like speeding, jaywalking, and other very minor statute abuses. It’s well below misdemeanors and felonies.
Can the NYPD arrest you, take you to central booking, make you sleep there for the night until a judge is available to arraign you?
Until today’s New York Times, one would have thought the law would control — “In Tiny Courts of N.Y., Abuses of Law and Power”
See: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/25/nyregion/25courts.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/26/nyregion/26courts.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/27/nyregion/27courts.html
archived at: http://groups.google.com/group/alt.lawyers/browse_thread/thread/60962c4aa8d4dd5d/d02abe8c1cf45c8c?hl=en#d02abe8c1cf45c8c
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.lawyers/browse_thread/thread/4b6ee215c81e8c46/d6e5df1afce475db?hl=en#d6e5df1afce475db
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.lawyers/browse_thread/thread/5d6977ae4f66c448/ac0b20d414dc046e?hl=en#ac0b20d414dc046e
In New York City at least, the judges went to law school. The answer to your question might be found in a scholarly 2004 paper, “The Adjudication of Minor Offenses in New York City”, that you can find summarized at the first link below.
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