NY CLS Desk Edition Gilbert's Criminal Practice Annual

All primary source updated by the Publisher's Editorial Staff.

Case annotations updated by Jill Simon Shapiro, Esq., Chappaqua, New York.

Criminal Practice Insights updated by John M. Castellano, Deputy Executive for the Legal Affairs Division in the District Attorney's Office, Queens, New York.

The Honorable Barry Kamins is a partner at Aidala, Bertuna & Kamins and a retired supreme Court Justice. Before leaving the bench, he was Administrative Judge of the Criminal Court of New York City, Administrative Judge for Criminal Matters for the Second Judicial District and Chief of Policy and Planning for the New York Court System. He was appointed a Criminal Court Judge by Mayor Michael Bloomberg on September 11, 2008 and was elected to Acting Supreme Court Justice on May 6, 2009. Judge Kamins was elected a State Supreme Court Justice on January 1, 2013.

Judge Kamins is an Adjunct Professor at Brooklyn Law School; where he teaches New York criminal practice. He is the author of New York Search and Seizure and writes the Criminal Law and Practice column for the New York Law Journal. From 1969 to 1973, judge Kamins served as an Assistant District Attorney in Kings County where he was a partner in Flamhaft Levy Kamins Hirsch & Rendeiro LLP.

Judge Kamins currently serves on the New York State Justice Task Force and the Chief Judge’s Advisory Committee on Evidence. He is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Historical Society of the Courts of New York State. He is a former President of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and a past Chairman of the Grievance Committee of the 2nd, 11th and 13th Judicial Districts. He also chaired the Advisory Committee on Criminal Law and Procedure for the Chief Administrative Judge, the New York State Permanent Sentencing Commission and the New York State Bar’s Task Force on Wrongful Convictions.

Judge Kamins lectures extensively on criminal law for the Office of Court Administration to prosecutors and defense attorneys. Over the years, he has been appointed by the courts to serve on several committees dealing with problems in the criminal justice system; the Commission on the Future of Indigent Defense Service; the Commission on Drugs and the Courts; the Committee to Promote Public Trust and Confidence in the Legal-System; the Committee on Guidelines for Representation of Indigent Defendants; the New York Task Force on Procession Civilian Complaints by the New York City Criminal Court; and the Assigned Counsel Plan Advisory Committee of the Appellate Division, Second Department. He received a B. A. from Columbia College and a J.D. from Rutgers University Law School.