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PEOPLE EX REL MAXIAN v. BROWN

77 N.Y.2d 422 (1991)

The People of the State of New York ex rel. Michele Maxian, on Behalf of Damon Roundtree, et al., Respondents, v. Lee Brown, as Commissioner of the New York City Police Department, et al., Appellants. The People of the State of New York ex rel. Martin Murphy, on Behalf of James Lovells, et al., Respondents, v. Lee Brown, as Commissioner of the New York City Police Department, et al., Appellants.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided March 26, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Victor A. Kovner, Corporation Counsel (Fay Leoussis, Leonard Koerner, Francis F. Caputo and Stephen J. McGrath of counsel), for appellants.

Michele Maxian, Robert M. Baum and Ivar Goldart for respondents.

Henry J. Steinglass, Anthony Ferrara, Jack Hoffinger, Jack Litman, Gerald Lefcourt, Ursula Bentele, Charles Adler and James Shorris for Association of the Bar of the City of New York and others, amici curiae.

Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges SIMONS, KAYE, ALEXANDER, TITONE, HANCOCK, JR., and BELLACOSA concur in Per Curiam opinion.

Per Curiam.

Under CPL 140.20 (1), a police officer, after performing without unnecessary delay the required preliminary police duties, must without unnecessary delay bring a person arrested without a warrant to a local criminal court for arraignment. This appeal involves consolidated habeas corpus proceedings challenging the various prearraignment delays to which persons arrested in New York County were subject...

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