Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, D-Westchester, speaks with reporters in an Albany suburb on Dec. 9, 2019. Photo: Dan M. Clark/NYLJ
Prosecutors in New York have pushed back on the new laws since they were approved by the Legislature in late March. They’ve said their offices will need more funding to comply with the reforms, particularly when it comes to discovery.
December 09, 2019 at 12:58 PM
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The likelihood that New York state lawmakers will act to roll back or delay upcoming reforms to cash bail, criminal discovery, and the right to a speedy trial grew smaller Monday as the leader of the State Senate confirmed that her members would not support such a move.
That means that, absent extraordinary circumstances, the state’s new criminal justice laws will take effect on their intended start date of Jan. 1, 2020.
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