Nearly half of all drinking-and-driving offenses in Manhattan were tossed out of court last year – as dismissal rates soared over five times higher than they were before state lawmakers enacted a c…
Drunk drivers are getting a free ride in New York City.
Almost half of the drunk driving cases handled by the Manhattan DA’s office were dismissed on technicalities or for other reasons in 2022.Prosecutors are now required to turn over all evidence related to alleged felonies and misdemeanors within just and other petty offenses, and within 20 to 35 days for many other crimes.
Mohamed Taher Hassan — whose father Taher Ali Hassan, 63, was killed in December 2020 by a driver on the Belt Parkway in Queens traveling at nearly double the speed limit while high on booze and cocaine — said his family “didn’t see the full justice it was expecting” because of the new discovery law.
Thirty-one percent of all traffic infractions in Queens were tossed out of court last year, compared to 17% in 2019, while the traffic-felony dismissal rate surged ninefold over the same period, from 2% to 18%.The dismissal rate for traffic felony cases in Queens surged from 2% to 18% from 2019 to 2022.In Manhattan, the dismissal rate for all traffic offenses rose from 18% in 2019 to 44% the following year, when the new discovery requirements went into effect.
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