§ 700. District attorney; powers and duties. 1. Except as provided in section seven hundred one of this chapter, it shall be the duty of every district attorney to conduct all prosecutions for crimes and offenses cognizable by the courts of the county for which he or she shall have been elected or appointed; except […]
§ 701. Special district attorney. 1. Whenever the district attorney of any county and such assistants as he or she may have shall not be in attendance at a term of any court of record, which he or she is by law required to attend, or are disqualified from acting in a particular case to […]
§ 702. Assistant district attorneys. 1. The board of supervisors shall have power to authorize the district attorney to appoint one or more assistant district attorneys. Every such appointment shall be in a writing filed and recorded in the office of the county clerk. The person appointed shall take the prescribed oath of office and […]
§ 702-a. Appointment of special assistant district attorneys during a period of civil disorder. 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a district attorney in any county, including any county within the City of New York, may, during a period of civil disorder, or as the result thereof, appoint one or more special […]
§ 703. Employment of counsel. With the written approval of the county judge of a county in which an indictment has been found for a capital or other crime which presents unusual difficulty upon the trial thereof, the district attorney may employ counsel to assist him upon such trial. Such approval shall be filed in […]
§ 703-a. Employment of stenographer. Whenever the district attorney of any county in the performance of his duties shall be required to prosecute a contested criminal proceeding before a magistrate of a town or village, unless pursuant to law a stenographer be regularly employed by such magistrate or in the court over which he presides, […]
§ 705. Prosecution fund. The board of supervisors shall have power to appropriate and set aside a fund for the payment in advance of audit of expenditures incurred by the district attorney, or attorney general acting under section sixty-two of the executive law, necessarily incurred in the prosecution of criminal actions and proceedings arising in […]
§ 706. Cost and expense of removed criminal trials. Whenever the trial of an indictment has been transferred from the county in which the indictment was found to some other county, the cost and expense of such trial shall be a charge upon the county in which the indictment was found. Whenever under the order […]
§ 707. Payments of expert fees in criminal cases in which the death penalty may be imposed. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, upon a finding in an ex parte proceeding that expert services are reasonably necessary for the prosecution of the case whether in connection with issues relating to guilt […]
