

 
    § 10.20 Superior courts; jurisdiction.
    1. Superior courts have trial jurisdiction of all offenses. They have:
    (a) Exclusive trial jurisdiction of felonies; and
    (b)  Trial  jurisdiction  of  misdemeanors concurrent with that of the
  local criminal courts; and
    (c) Trial jurisdiction of  petty  offenses,  but  only  when  such  an
  offense is charged in an indictment which also charges a crime.
    2.  Superior courts have preliminary jurisdiction of all offenses, but
  they exercise such jurisdiction only by reason of and through the agency
  of their grand juries.
    3. Superior court judges  may,  in  their  discretion,  sit  as  local
  criminal courts for the following purposes:
    (a) conducting arraignments, as provided in subdivision two of section
  170.15 and subdivision two of section 180.20 of this chapter;
    (b)  issuing  warrants  of  arrests, as provided in subdivision one of
  section 120.70 of this chapter; and
    (c) issuing search warrants, as provided in article six hundred ninety
  of this chapter.

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