Newly sworn-in Manhattan DA Bragg has instructed his staff to halt prosecutions for a handful of low-level offenses, to only seek bail in certain cases and to never seek life sentences for any crime, according to a memo sent out to employees this week.
. The bills would require the Parole Board to allow people out on parole unless they were a danger to society, and would give people over the age of 55 who’d served 15 years a chance to appear before the parole board, regardless of their sentence.Some public defenders said they's already begun to notice a difference in court under the new district attorney.
I don't want to tweet about other people's case or mine but to be general: more reasonable bail requests SO FAR & biggest change, less upcharging - instead seeing moderately charged RORs that would have been Cy Vance felony bail requests in a damn heartbeat.
“I’m hearing good things about charging decisions, bail decisions and we’ll hopefully hear more good stuff to come,” Orlins said. “He’s only been in office for one and a half business days.”We urge judges to not stand in the way of these long overdue and necessary reforms,” she said.
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