Posted on 12/30/2019 12:32:33 PM PST by DoodleBob
Albany, NY – Under New York’s " justice reforms," criminals must be provided with the names and contact information of victims and witnesses involved in the case against them.
Effective January 1, 2020, prosecutors will have just 15 days from the time of arraignment to hand over all evidence pertaining to a case – including victim and witness information, WSTM reported.
Cases can be dismissed if prosecutors fail to meat the deadline, Albany County District Attorney David Soares told the news outlet.
“’By the way, I have to provide your cell phone number to his lawyer in a few weeks,’” Soares used as an example of what he will be forced to tell crime victims. “I don’t know how I’m going to have these conversations with a victim.”
Under the law change, the court can also require crime scenes to remain unchanged so that defendants can be allowed to visit them, the New York Daily News reported.
Staten Island District Attorney Michael McMahon has been speaking out about the myriad of problems the sweeping changes will have throughout the state since they were passed back in April, the Staten Island Advance reported.
“We will undoubtedly see a chilling effect on cooperation by those impacted by crime, choosing instead to protect their own privacy and avoid being re-victimized,” McMahon warned. “While there certainly was room to improve New York’s criminal justice system, the ‘reforms’ to our bail and discovery statutes supported by our state Legislature and Governor Cuomo blew past any semblance of fairness or justice.”
Soares noted that some aspects of the law changes are essentially impossible to comply with, such as being mandated to turn over DNA or toxicology results that won’t even be back from the lab within the 15-day period.
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The accused has a right to confront his accuser in court regardless of these “reforms.” It is the information like phone numbers and addresses and any private information the state has about the accuser that is now required to be furnished to the accused, like phone numbers and once the lawyers and judges push it farther and farther, where the accused works and where he vacations and any other information the state has or can be expected to have like maybe like ID numbers and assets.- This will subject accusers to revenge and to extortion and theft.
Please post your home address.
Your parked and unoccupied car dashcam catches someone robbing some little old lady and you give the video to the police.
Now the perp is out, no bond required, and he has your name and address.
I was thinking : imagine you witness a gang member killing a shop keeper and you are willing to testify. Now they want to give the gang member your address and other information. After a few witness murders how willing will anybody be to step forward?
What judge in NY thought this was legal?
This is straight-up witness tampering.
they should but only during trial. The risk for intimidation is simply to great otherwise.
You have a right to counsel. If you can not afford one....
Giving my address to a lawyer is less risky than giving it to a criminal.
Mexican cartel members don’t have the right to get DEA or BP officers’ home adresses.
Baloney!
You obviously have not read the law!
Read the law!
Imagine going to court on a rape charge and not knowing if whether it was your wife or your girlfriend the Accuser!
Covered by the law. Read the law before making meaningless statements.
It is a delicate balance. best solution, imo, the decision should be made on a case by case basis.
But I thought that NY was against the death penalty .... seems like they have just instituted it for victims!!!!
Covered by the law.
“Now the perp is out, no bond required, and he has your name and address.”
I guess thinking is not your strong suit.
you read the statute or the article? Because this IS NY after all.
Several Law & Order episodes featured witnesses getting dead because the slime lawyers for gang criminals were able to learn who they were.
“you read the statute or the article?”
See #19.
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