Certificate of disposition

A certificate of disposition is a New York court document that indicates the current status of a case or its final disposition.^[1]

Availability

Certificates of Disposition are available from the clerk's office in either the Criminal Court or the Supreme Court, Criminal Term, both trial courts in New York City.^[2] It is also available in all other city courts in Upstate New York, for example, Binghamton, New York,^[3] and Plattsburgh, New York.^[4]

Only the criminal defendant, defendants representation, or a person with written and notarized permission of the defendant, can access this court record.^[2][3][4][5]

There are 13 branches of New York City Criminal Courts,^[6] and five branches of the Supreme Court handling felonies in New York City.^[7] There are also 61 city courts outside of New York City.

See also

• Allocution
• Transcript
• Law of New York
• Judiciary of New York