People v. Green

This decision is prompted by the need to call attention to an oft-repeated factual situation plainly requiring prompt corrective action. That there is some urgency therefor is the more apparent when it is observed that the summons part of this court, into which hundreds of miscellaneous and varied criminal processes pour each week, is presided over by one Judge who, more often than not, is bound to also serve as the prosecutor and the protector of the defendants’ rights.

In the two instances under consideration and in many other similar cases the defendants were charged with violation of…