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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…