Posted on 03/31/2025 8:00:17 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Progressive groups including The Legal Aid Society are putting the squeeze on New York lawmakers to reject Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposals on involuntary commitment and discovery reform – and helping hold the state budget past its April 1 deadline.
“Governor Hochul’s insistence on exploiting the budget process to push through policies, including repealing New York’s modernized and widely successful discovery statute, is misguided and delays the critical fiscal policies New Yorkers need...
State Sen. George Borrello (R-Chautauqua) argued that Legal Aid has a conflict of interest in its opposition to the discovery laws, which were passed in 2019 and require prosecutors to turn over evidence to defendants within 20 or 35 days after arraignment.
“We have district attorneys’ offices that are starved, underfunded, understaffed. But we’re going to make the Legal Aid Society’s job easier with the discovery law,” he lamented.
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Twyla Carter, Legal Aid’s CEO, wrote in a post on X last month: “We cannot allow @GovKathyHochul to roll back vital discovery laws that prevent NYers from languishing in jail without evidence. We should demand more from our legal system, not less.”
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The progressive groups have also pressured lawmakers to oppose Hochul’s plan to expand involuntary commitment laws.
Hochul has argued Albany needs to deal with violent mentally ill people, especially in the subway.
Many lawmakers have argued that the state should make it easier to send people suffering from psychiatric issues who are a danger to themselves or others — like Michael Medlock, who battled mental illness for years before he shoved a straphanger onto the tracks in 2020 — into treatment against their will.
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Wasn’t Hochul one of the lockdown tyrants?
She seems to really favor a boot-on-the-face approach to the citizens of New York.
I t sounds like she wants to inhibit the defense from accessing the state’s evidence in a timely fashion. That’s bad.
She wants to make it easier to commit violent loons. That might be good, unless she’s thinking about Catholics, students’ parents at PTA and school board meetings, and gun owners.
The cancerous rot of these blue states has metastasized, controlled by the very people that belong in state mental institutions
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