Queens County Desk Appearance Ticket Procedures
In Queens, Desk Appearance Ticket cases are heard on varying days of the week, but not every day. In order to address a massive backlog of Desk Appearance Tickets, DAT days will typically handle approximately 200 cases per day for the near future.
For this reason, it is important to work out scheduling with your attorney prior to the desk appearance ticket day in Queens County so that both of you will be there bright and early.
If you do not have a private attorney, you should make every effort to appear early and hope that your case is one of the first cases dealt with by the public defenders. But you should prepare for the possibility of remaining in court for quite a while. In the end this is not the end of the world, because the first appearance on a desk appearance is not meant to be a trial. After the case is adjourned to a new date, you will have plenty of time to review your matter with your attorney.