New York Consolidated Laws
N.Y. Criminal Procedure Law § 700.70 (2026)
Eavesdropping warrants; notice before use of evidence
✓ current as of May 2026
Find cases:
SyfertCases citing this section
NY-LEGnysenate.gov
Justiaon Justia
CornellLII Search
CasesGoogle Scholar
§ 700.70 Eavesdropping warrants; notice before use of evidence. The contents of any intercepted communication, or evidence derived therefrom, may not be received in evidence or otherwise disclosed upon a trial of a defendant unless the people, within fifteen days after arraignment and before the commencement of the trial, furnish the defendant with a copy of the eavesdropping warrant, and accompanying application, under which interception was authorized or approved. This fifteen day period may be extended by the trial court upon good cause shown if it finds that the defendant will not be prejudiced by the delay in receiving such papers.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1
case (1 in the last 5 years), 2024–2024 · leading case: People v. Louis, 2024 NY Slip Op 24266 (N.Y. Sup. Kings 2024).
People v. Louis, 2024 NY Slip Op 24266 (N.Y. Sup. Kings 2024). “The statute extends this forty-five-day deadline in three situations: (1) when material or information is provided in automatic discovery pursuant to Criminal Procedure Law § 245.20 (1) (m) or (n); (2) when an eavesdropping warrant and application is provided to the defendant…”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the
Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and
treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.