Superior court information; definition
§ 200.15 Superior court information; definition.
A superior court information is a written accusation by a district attorney filed in a superior court pursuant to article one hundred ninety-five, charging a person, or two or more persons jointly, with the commission of a crime, or with the commission of two or more offenses, at least one of which is a crime. A superior court information may include any offense for which the defendant was held for action of a grand jury and any offense or offenses properly joinable therewith pursuant to sections 200.20 and 200.40, but shall not include an offense not named in the written waiver of indictment executed pursuant to section 195.20. A superior court information has the same force and effect as an indictment and all procedures and provisions of law applicable to indictments are also applicable to superior court informations, except where otherwise expressly provided.
A superior court information (SCI) is a written accusation by a district attorney, filed in superior court under Article 195 (waiver of indictment). It can include any offense the defendant was held for by the grand jury plus properly joinable offenses — but cannot include an offense not named in the written waiver of indictment. ★ An SCI has the same force and effect as an indictment, and all indictment procedures apply to it unless otherwise stated. ★
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 3 — The JG-22 Criminal Procedure Law and in Volume 1 — The JG-22 in Plain English.