Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s court appearance over sexual assault charges will be delayed after Albany’s district attorney slammed the sheriff’s procedure as “potentially defective.”

David Soares, Albany’s district attorney, criticized Sheriff Craig Apple for “uniformly and inexplicably” filing the complaint last week without the consent of the alleged victim or informing Soares’s office. The former governor will now be arraigned on Jan. 7, roughly a month and a half after his originally scheduled court date of Nov. 17.