If the warrant or summons form is filed in the clerkâs office, the clerk marks the date and. time of receipt in the clerkâs office on the form, issues receipts for fees, assigns the case a. sequential case number which is placed on the form, and indexes the case in the case index. system.
Hofstadter Committee. The Hofstadter Committee, also known as the Seabury investigations, was a joint legislative committee formed by the New York State Legislature to probe into corruption in New York City, especially the magistrate's courts and police department in 1931. It led to major changes in the method of arrest, bail and litigation of suspects in New York City.
The Boston Committee of Correspondence was formed at the Boston Town Meeting of November 2, 1772 in response to the British governmentâs decision to pay the governor and Superior Court judges of Massachusetts with Crown stipends, thereby making them dependent on the Crown rather than the people in assembly.ith the gradual establishment of self-government and the evacuation of the British from Boston in March 1776, the Committee of Correspondence attended to public safety activities in the Boston area until the end of the Revolutionary War.