N.Y. Criminal Procedure Law § 100.20 : Preliminary Proceedings In Local Criminal Court — Criminal Procedure — Commencement Of Action In Local Criminal Court-Local Criminal Court Accusatory Instruments — Supporting deposition; definition, form and content

23 Jun 2016

Current through 2016 New York Laws, Chapters 1 to 237

A supporting deposition is a written instrument accompanying or filed in connection with an information, a simplified information, a misdemeanor complaint or a felony complaint, subscribed and verified by a person other than the complainant of such accusatory instrument, and containing factual allegations of an evidentiary character, based either upon personal knowledge or upon information and belief, which supplement those of the accusatory instrument and support or tend to support the charge or charges contained therein.

N.Y. Crim. Proc. Law § 100.20