Securing attendance of defendants confined as prisoners in institutions of other jurisdictions of the United States; methods · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 580.10 Securing attendance of defendants confined as prisoners in
institutions of other jurisdictions of the United States;
methods.
The attendance in a criminal action pending in a court of this state of a defendant confined as a prisoner in an institution of another jurisdiction of the United States may, under prescribed circumstances, be secured pursuant to:
1. Section 570.12 of article five hundred seventy, known as the uniform criminal extradition act; or
2. Section 580.20, known as the agreement on detainers; or
3. Section 580.30.
New York may obtain a defendant imprisoned in another U.S. jurisdiction for a pending New York criminal case through § 570.12, the Agreement on Detainers in § 580.20, or § 580.30, when the conditions of the selected procedure are met. ★
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 1 — The Court Officer in Plain English; Volume 2 — The Court Officer: Criminal Procedure Law; Volume 2 — Your Career: Criminal Procedure in Plain English.