Gov. Andrew Cuomo is making a last-minute push to permanently assign cases where someone dies following an encounter with a member of law enforcement to the state Attorney General’s Office for an investigation, rather than a local district attorney.
That’s designed to prevent a conflict of interest that some have alleged could be presented by local prosecutors investigating members of law enforcement who they may know personally, or be more likely to give the benefit of the doubt.
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