While justices and their court clerks receive training from OCA, there is tremendous variability in how cases are handled.
In some small towns the caseload is extremely light, and a court might meet once a month and have only a few cases.
All criminal prosecutions that occur in towns and villages are commenced in a justice court.
[1] In 2006, The New York Times published an article documenting serious legal abuses in many of the state's justice courts.
People have been denied the right to a trial, an impartial judge and the presumption of innocence."