New York – Prosecutors and domestic violence advocates are hailing a judge’s ruling that allows for the use of electronic signature by a victim in a domestic violence case.
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Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said Wednesday the judge’s ruling “eliminates the need for the victims to travel around the city to sign documents.” He said it also allows victims to sign documents before their batterers are released from jail and attempt to contact them.
The Mayor’s Office to Combat Domestic Violence Commissioner Rosemonde Pierre-Louis called it a landmark decision that will transform and modernize the prosecution of domestic violence cases.
In the domestic assault case, Queens Criminal Court Judge Deborah Stevens Modica wrote that the court’s use of electronic signatures didn’t need specific legislative authorization because the technology was “no longer novel.”