The 2004 merger of the criminal courts in the Bronx into a single court with jurisdiction to handle both felonies and misdemeanors is unconstitutional, a divided panel of the Appellate Division, First Department, ruled yesterday.
Starting this morning, in the absence of a stay, misdemeanor cases will once again only be assigned to judges who have been appointed to the Criminal Court, said Administrative Judge Ephrain Alvarado (See Profile), who is in charge of criminal matters in the Bronx. The judges will continue to sit in hybrid parts, with misdemeanors being heard as Criminal Court cases and felonies as Supreme Court matters.
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