Desmond A. Green

Justice Green requires electronic filings to be text-searchable PDFs with mandatory hyperlinks to previously filed documents, exhibits, and authorities.

All electronic documents must be text-searchable, in PDF (portable document format) while maintaining the original document formatting.

Justice Green generally hears Wednesday motions in person, with the last Wednesday reserved for a virtual calendar when all parties agree and timely request it.

All attorneys/litigants on the action must agree to have the matter heard virtually

Kings County Civil Term motions require appearances and oral argument unless controlling part rules provide otherwise.

All motions require appearances and oral argument.

Video exhibits submitted in the centralized Kings County discovery parts must be delivered on a USB drive with a notice of Hard Copy Exhibit Filing before the return date.

Any video exhibits submitted to the court must be on a USB drive accompanied by the notice of Hard Copy Exhibit Filing prior to the return date.

Filed motions, orders, and other papers in Kings County Civil Term must use protruding exhibit tabs, subject to the stated exceptions.

Motions, orders, and other filed papers shall be indexed with protruding tabs.

Summary Jury Trial exhibits and other physical evidence must be premarked and exchanged before trial or may be excluded.

All evidence, trial notebook and exhibits must be exchanged in advance of trial or be excluded

The official Guide to New York Evidence identifies court control over presentation of evidence as a statewide evidence topic; counsel should expect the assigned judge to control the mode and order of proof.

1.07. COURT CONTROL OVER PRESENTATION OF EVIDENCE

A video-conference deposition in a Kings County Civil Term case requires an order from the presiding judge.

To conduct a video conference for a deposition, an order from the judge presiding over your case is required.

Video-conference trial testimony requires advance approval from the trial judge.

To conduct a video conference for a trial testimony, approval must first be obtained from the trial judge.

Live or prerecorded video testimony is permitted in a Kings County Summary Jury Trial.

Video live/pre-recorded testimony permitted

Kings County Summary Jury Trials permit innovative jury presentations, including medical records, reports, and PowerPoint.

Innovative method of case presentation to the jury, including direct submission to jury of medical records, reports, power point presentations, etc.

New York statewide rules require permission before photographing, filming, videotaping, audiotaping, broadcasting, or telecasting in court facilities, including courtrooms.

Taking photographs, films or videotapes, or audiotaping, broadcasting or telecasting, in a courthouse including any courtroom, office or hallway thereof, at any time or on any occasion, whether or not the court is in session, is forbidden, unless permission of the Chief Administrator of the Courts or a designee of the Chief Administrator is first obtained