QUEENS COUNTY DESK APPEARANCE TICKET PROCEDURES

Prior to the new law taking effect in January 2020, In Queens, Desk Appearance Ticket cases are heard on varying days of the week, in the morning in the regular arraignment courtroom located in the ground floor of the East wing.

It is important to work out scheduling with your attorney prior to the desk appearance ticket day in Queens County so that both of you will be there early enough to make your court appearance as smooth and quick as possible.

If you do not have a private attorney, you should make every effort to appear early and hope that your case is one of the first cases dealt with by the public defenders once they conclude interviews of all the people who show up without attorneys. But you should prepare for the possibility of remaining in court for quite a while, even until the end of the court session.

The Desk Appearance Ticket paperwork typically advises that you arrive to court at 8:30am. Sometimes, you may get an automated notification that you should be at court at 8:30 am. You should understand that this is NOT AN APPOINTMENT UNIQUE TO YOU. Nobody has a scheduled time to be heard in the Desk Appearance Ticket courtroom. Your case will be called once your private lawyer advises the Court that your case is ready, or once the public defender has reached a sufficient threshold of interviewed cases to declare your case and the others to be called with it, ready. Cases can only be called one at a time. Also, you should know that although there is individual variation with Judges, you should not expect to see Court actually begin calling any cases until 9am at the earliest, and most of the time not until 9:30am. Therefore, if your private attorney advises you to meet at 9:15 or 9:30, this is not a catastrophic problem because it says on your DAT paper that you should be there at 8:30.

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