Even Jack McCoy had enough...
Posted on 06/26/2022 8:47:56 PM PDT by lowbridge
Hundreds of prosecutors in New York City are quitting the district attorneys' offices amid controversial criminal justice reforms.
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's office this year has hemorrhaged 65 assistant district attorneys, which is about 12% of the staff.
Bragg released a memo on his third day in office, ordering prosecutors not to seek prison sentences for a number of crimes and to downgrade charges – including for robberies and commercial burglaries.
Manhattan's situation mirrors that of Brooklyn, where 67 prosecutors — approximately 13% — have resigned from DA Eric Gonzalez's office as of June 17, with three more leaving last Thursday alone, according to the New York Post. In 2020, 84 resigned, and 94 left office in 2021. Fifty-nine prosecutors have quit in the Bronx beginning this year through May.
The resignations come amid state criminal justice reforms that some have criticized for being too onerous.
In 2019, New York adopted discovery requirements that ordered lawyers to turn over large amounts of material to the defense in a short amount of time.
Joan Illuzzi-Orbon, a former Manhattan assistant district attorney and trial division chief who prosecuted Harvey Weinstein, told the New York Post that such regulations are "crippling our lawyers."
"You become a file clerk rather than a trial lawyer," she said, providing the example of how every officer's bodycam footage at a protest might have to be produced if there are allegations of wrongdoing.
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Make NYC like Ukraine during the Holodomor.
Why does NYC need prosecutors?
If those prosecutors and others would have stopped automatically voting democrat, they wouldn’t have to deal with this mess. When will they learn?
“You become a file clerk rather than a trial lawyer”
If they aren’t smart enough to notice the difference between this and how things were under Giuliani, they deserve to be file clerks.
I guess Marxist Bragg needed some figure to brag about how successful his policies have been in not fighting crime.
They weren’t using them effectively anyway
“Even Jack McCoy had enough...”
Yeah, but Jack is back — on the new, and disgustingly woke, iteration of Law And Order. He’s a doddering old dude now.
If Andrew Giuliani happens to win the governors race, I wonder if that would have any impact on the internal NYC crime.
This is good news, for Heaven’s sake, LET’S TAKE IT.
GEEZ
The cities have been covering it up because they know that companies will leave and the bond ratings will drop.
No change here keep moving
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