Jury trial; requirement thereof
§ 260.10 Jury trial; requirement thereof.
Except as otherwise provided in section 320.10, every trial of an indictment must be a jury trial.
Every trial of an indictment (the formal felony-level charging document) must be a jury trial. ★ The only exception: § 320.10, which lets a defendant waive the jury and have a bench trial (judge alone). So the default is a jury; the defendant has to affirmatively give it up.
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.