The Manhattan District Attorney’s delegation of New York City Police Department attorneys prosecuting two protesters charged with low-level offenses presents potential conflicts of interest, a judge ruled this week. A different judge said last year that the delegation was lawful.
On Sept. 19, 2016, Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Guy Mitchell found it was within the DA’s legal authority to hand over the prosecution of Arminta Jeffryes and Cristina Winsor, who were cited while participating in a Black Lives Matter demonstrations in March 2016.
