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NYC neighborhood teams repping crime victims, retailers, again rollbacks to discovery reforms
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NYC neighborhood teams repping crime victims, retailers, again rollbacks to discovery reforms

Last updated: March 2, 2025 10:07 pm
Editorial Board Published March 2, 2025
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A coalition of New York Metropolis neighborhood organizations on Monday is anticipated to aspect with Gov. Hochul and the town’s district attorneys within the debate over proposed rollbacks to state discovery reforms — launching a marketing campaign lobbying lawmakers to provide prosecutors extra time to supply proof to these accused of crimes.

“Her proposal continues to advance transparency while ensuring cases are not dismissed over minor technicalities that have no impact on fairness. Survivors deserve a legal system that delivers justice,” Kluger’s assertion declared. “The Legislature must act now.”

If handed by the New York Legislature, Hochul’s sweeping proposal would, amongst different adjustments, hand discretion again to prosecutors from judges relating to what — and when — info defendants are entitled to whereas a legal case makes its method to trial. 

For the reason that reforms went into impact in 2020, prosecutors who for years weren’t required to supply proof to defendants till the eve of trial have confronted the prospect of instances being thrown out in the event that they didn’t adhere to strict deadlines for proof manufacturing.

The governor and the town’s DAs have blamed the reforms for hundreds of instances being dismissed on technicalities and folks circling again by way of the legal justice system. They’ve pointed to information displaying the case dismissal charge in 2023, together with felonies and misdemeanors, was 62% in contrast with 42% in 2019.

Public defender teams and authorized students who lately urged state legislators to reject the rollbacks say authorities are misattributing information. They’ve pointed to figures displaying that elevated dismissals have solely occurred within the metropolis — not statewide — and say conviction charges in 2019 had been artificially inflated as a consequence of unfair threats and pleas coerced from defendants by prosecutors.

In a letter to state lawmakers final week, greater than 80 legislation professors urged them to reject the proposal, warning New York’s justice system can be returned to an period when defendants fought their instances in the dead of night.

“New Yorkers could not make informed decisions about their cases, investigate adequately, weigh plea offers, secure exculpatory evidence, or meaningfully prepare for trial before the last minute,” they wrote. 

The coalition backing the rollbacks contains, amongst others, the Residents Crime Fee, the Instances Sq. Alliance, DC37, the Bodega and Small Enterprise Group, the New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers, and Girls’s Equal Justice. It plans to launch its marketing campaign supporting Gov. Hochul’s proposal Monday.

“This broad coalition represents New Yorkers and the justice system they want to see: fair, functioning and centered around survivors of crime,” Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg stated in an announcement.

“I thank the coalition members, and particularly chair Judge Judy Harris Kluger, who knows firsthand the impact that unnecessary case dismissals can have on survivors.”

Initially Printed: March 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM EST

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