A bill seeking to create an agency to review the work of prosecutors in New York state failed to reach the floor of either house of the Legislature in the final days of lawmakers’ regular 2014 session.
A8634/S6286 would have established a “Commission on Prosecutorial Conduct” to investigate complaints of wrongdoing by prosecutors. As with the Commission on Judicial Conduct, the panel would have been empowered to sanction prosecutors by admonishment, censure or removal after a hearing (NYLJ, June 10).
