Title:
County:
Address: 1650
Route 9W,
Phone: 845-795-2256 Fax: 845-795-5846
Traffic Calendar:
Criminal Calendar:
Traffic Tickets: Prosecuted by Special Prosecutor (State Troopers) or local officers
Criminal Prosecutions: Ulster County
District Attorney's Office
Judges: Hon. Eleanor Gallagher and Hon. Michael Kraiza
Traffic Enforcement & Prosecution
The Town of
Traffic Court
The NYS Police are prohibited from negotiating plea bargains on traffic violations. As a result,
a Special Prosecutor for the town prosecutes tickets written by the NYS police. The overwhelming majority of state police tickets
are adjudicated through plea bargains with the Special Prosecutor. The prosecutor and both judges are reasonable about plea
bargains as long as the speed was not too high.
Local police officers typically prosecute their own tickets, though the
Special Prosecutor may substitute for them. Again, most tickets are resolved through plea bargains.
Expect a modest wait
to speak to prosecutor. A wait time of 1 hour is typical. 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.
One of the judges 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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Law Offices of Glenn W. Magnell
Defense Attorneys for Criminal, DWI, DUI & Traffic Offenses
Phone: 845-294-0585 Fax:
888-724-5470
Email: gmagnell@stormkinglaw.com
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