NY judges agree with Mayor Adams on fixing bail-reform law, court official says

[Kamaji]

NY judges agree with Mayor Adams on fixing bail-reform law, court official says

By Bernadette Hogan and Bruce Golding
January 25, 2022

New York’s judges overwhelmingly agree with Mayor Eric Adams that they should have greater control over setting bail for potentially dangerous defendants, the official in charge of court operations told lawmakers Tuesday.

“Many judges — we’ve got most of our judges who sit on criminal cases — would like more discretion in making determinations about bail and release of people accused of crimes,” Chief Administrative Judge Lawrence Marks said during a budget hearing in Albany.

The state’s judiciary doesn’t “have a formal proposal,” Marks said, before adding that he wasn’t “speaking for 100 percent of our judges.”

“But I think it’s fair to say that individual judges would like to have more discretion in making these decisions and feel that they would be able to fairly and effectively make decisions on a case-by-case basis,” he said.

“To me, that’s a fair characterization of how most judges who sit on criminal cases in the state Unified Court System feel.”

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/01/25/ny-judges-agree-with-eric-adams-on-fixing-bail-reform-law-court-official-says/

[Kamaji]

It still won't pass, because all the browns and blacks, dontcha know.

Stewart-Cousins also said that giving judges more discretion in setting or denying bail would disproportionately affect “black and brown and poor defendants.”

As in Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Yonkers).

Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/01/25/leading-lawmakers-reject-eric-adams-legislative-proposals-to-stem-shootings-in-nyc/