Bronx Criminal Court To End Closed-Door Arraignments, Officials Say
(DNAINFO) Eddie Small | December 7, 2015 — Criminal arraignments of defendants who are hospitalized in The Bronx will no longer be conducted in private via video stream, but will instead take place in an open court as is the standard in the rest of the city, officials said.
The change comes on the heels of court proceedings for suspected murderer Ashleigh Wade, whose two-way video arraignment while she was hospitalized for a psychiatric evaluation took place behind closed doors in Judge George Grasso’s chambers on Friday.