Title: Denning
County:
Address: 1567 Denning
Road,
Phone: 845-985-2100 Fax: 845- 985-0188
Traffic Calendar:
Criminal Calendar:
Traffic Tickets: Prosecuted by officer who wrote the ticket
Criminal Prosecutions: Ulster County District Attorney's Office
Judges: Hon. Jonathan S. Follender
Traffic Enforcement & Prosecution
The Town of
Traffic Court
The NYS Police are prohibited from negotiating
plea bargains on traffic violations. Unfortunately, no special town prosecutor has been appointed to deal with tickets written
by the NYS police. As such, Trooper tickets will likely have to go to trial, since they are unable to negotiate.
Local
police officers generally prosecute their own tickets. Most tickets are resolved through plea bargains.
The wait to speak to
speak to the officers is typically not very long. Less than a 1 hour wait is usual. Attorneys are permitted to appear without their
clients being present for traffic court.
For more information about speeding and other traffic offenses, click here.
To
read some Frequently Asked Traffic Law questions, click here.
For information about having the Law Office of Glenn Magnell defend your speeding ticket or DWI charge,, click here.
Criminal Law Enforcement & Prosecution
All criminal prosecutions are
handled by the Ulster County District Attorney's Office. The Ulster DA's office has taken a fairly hard line on DWI prosecutions.
In 2010 there were almost 2,000 alcohol related driving arrests impaired or intoxicated driving (DWI, DWAI, DWAI-D) in Ulster County. Both the NYS Police and the Ulster County Sheriff's Department made numerous arrests. Most arrests occurred after dark with many taking
place after
In addition to DWI and DWAI, numerous arrests were made
for Driving While Impaired by Drugs, Aggravated Unlicensed Operation and Driving With a Suspended Registration. All of these
offenses are "criminal" violations of the law and, as a result are prosecuted by the Ulster County District Attorney's office. The DA’s has a general rule that breath tests of .12% or more will not be reduced through plea bargains. However, this is not
a hard and fast policy.
The town justice in
For more information about DWI, click here.
To read some Frequently Asked Questions about DWI, click here.
For information about having the Law Office of Glenn Magnell
represent you, click here.
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Defense Attorneys for Criminal, DWI, DUI & Traffic Offenses
Phone: 845-294-0585 Fax:
888-724-5470
Email: gmagnell@stormkinglaw.com
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