Sentences with phrase «local district attorneys»

He has openly discussed the possibility of requiring that special prosecutors, not local district attorneys, handle suspected cases of police brutality.

The laboratories must process the rape kits and share the results with the police and local district attorney within a 90 - day period.

Bob Baker, executive director of the Missouri Alliance for Animal Legislation, attributes the decline to the passage of the Canine Cruelty Prevention Act which raised standards of care and gave authority to the attorney general to prosecute non-compliant or unlicensed kennels (prior to that prosecutions were handled by local district attorneys more sympathetic with puppy millers, he said.)

The show of support from the state's Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus came amid still - simmering resentment from local district attorneys who resent the implication that they're too biased to handle such cases themselves.

A parent with custodial rights can apply for a child support order from the state through the Child Support Services Division.The division can help with court proceedings and work with local district attorneys, if necessary, to establish a noncustodial parent's child support obligation.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman last year was appointed a special prosecutor to pursue cases in which civilians die in interactions with police, taking the power away from local district attorneys who may be too close with local law enforcement.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo created an executive order in July 2015 that gave the state Attorney General power to take over as a special prosecutor from local district attorneys in investigating fatal police shootings in cases where the victims were «unarmed.»

«It is well past time that our state legislature enact real anti-corruption measures and empower local district attorney offices to bring corruption cases.

In an interview, Kaminsky said it was up to Congress to tighten up the definition of honest services fraud or empower local district attorneys to take on corruption cases.

Schneiderman also said local district attorneys who would prefer to recuse themselves in such cases, so as to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest, can not currently do so.

Cuomo said Schneiderman would not be susceptible to the kind of public pressure about which Lynch warned, or suffer the same skepticism as local district attorneys.

While local District Attorneys seldom look into allegations of corruption in state government, the United States Attorneys have, most notably the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara, who has brought the charges against the former Cuomo associates and who successfully prosecuted both former legislative leaders in New York.

«Local district attorneys work with local law enforcement and I think it makes sense, in most cases and certainly these types of cases, that there is concern that there can be a conflict and even a perception of a conflict of interest,» Stewart - Cousins said, flanked by other senior and newly elected members of the conference.

Cuomo said he hoped to do away with perceived conflicts of interest between local district attorneys and police.

While local district attorneys seldom look into allegations of corruption in state government, the United States attorneys have, most notably the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara, who has brought the charges against the former Cuomo associates and who successfully prosecuted both former legislative leaders in New York.

Rensselaer County DA Joel E. Abelove filed a civil complaint in state Supreme Court that seeks to overturn an executive order Cuomo signed two years ago giving the state attorney general the authority to usurp local district attorneys in cases in which unarmed civilians are killed during confrontations with police.

In a letter sent to Cuomo on Monday, Atty. Gen. Eric Schneiderman asked for the power to independently investigate the killing of any unarmed civilian by a police officer in the state, effectively removing local district attorneys from the equation.

Curran, a Baldwin Democrat who took office Jan. 1, appears to be the first county executive in New York State history to sign such a measure, although the practice is common among local district attorneys.

Daniel Donovan, the Staten Island district attorney and a Republican candidate for Congress, echoed complaints of other local district attorneys, telling a radio host that the proposal would effectively disenfranchise the people who elected him.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Senate Democrats have pushed for special prosecutors to look into police shootings of unarmed citizens, but many Republicans oppose the idea because they say it will undermine locals District Attorneys.

Cuomo issued an executive order to grant Attorney General Eric Schneiderman the power to investigate deaths of civilians caused by police — a move angering local district attorneys.

The decision by the grand jury not to indict in the Garner case exposes an «inherent conflict... when local district attorneys who work with police departments every day are asked to investigate members of those departments,» said Schneiderman.

The attorney general said that Cuomo has the authority under the state's constitution to give his office the power to to supersede local district attorneys and investigate any crime the governor sees fit.

Mr. Simmons said he spoke personally with Mayor Bill de Blasio and Mr. Cuomo on the phone and that the latter had promised him that local district attorneys like Staten Island's Daniel Donovan will no longer handle cases like NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo's killing of the elder Garner, a black civilian.

To these he adds a more innovative proposal: He would expand local district attorneys» power to root out corruption by making lying to local law enforcement a crime, as it is on the federal level.

It will have a special prosecutor, subpoena power and the authority to convene grand juries; it can also assist local district attorneys.

The Legislature, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics and local district attorneys want no part of it, leaving the matter in the hands of the stern and competent U.S. Attorney's office.

The order stemmed from multiple cases in which police killed unarmed civilians, but a grand jury chose to not indict the officers after being presented with evidence by local district attorneys.

«A majority of Democrats, independents, voters from every region and race agree that the Attorney General and not local district attorneys should have authority in cases where unarmed civilians are killed by police officers, although Democrats, New York City voters, blacks and Latinos feel most strongly about this,» Siena College pollster Steve Greenberg said.

The governor's proposal would create a new state agency — the Justice Center for the Protection of People With Special Needs — with prosecutorial powers, giving it authority concurrent with local district attorneys to bring cases against those who abuse people with disabilities.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo just unveiled Step One in what will be a multi-pronged reform proposal in the wake of last week's back - to - back corruption cases: Empowering local district attorneys to better ferret out and prosecute wrongdoing by dirty elected officials at all levels of government in New York.

«Despite [the attorney generals»] unique insight and statewide grasp of the landscape and the laws, the legislature has limited their scope and put them in a rather narrow place between local district attorneys and U.S. attorneys,» Phillips said.

Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel E. Abelove filed a civil complaint in state Supreme Court Wednesday that seeks to overturn an executive order Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed two years ago giving the state attorney general the authority to usurp local district attorneys in cases in which unarmed civilians are killed during confrontations with police.

And that closeness is a conflict,» Cuomo said on July 8, 2015 when signing an executive order that empowers the Attorney General to take over investigations of police killings of civilians from local District Attorneys.

George Gascon, the local district attorney, told the Chronicle.

The actions prompted a standoff this week as District Court Judge Gary Clingman held the state's chief public defender in contempt of court, and the local district attorney petitioned the New Mexico Supreme Court to intervene.

A local District Attorney might prioritize prosecuting drunk drivers over jaywalkers.

Kaminsky, meanwhile, released a five - point ethics reform platform that include bans on lawmakers earning outside income, expanding penalties for corruption, campaign finance law changes and enhancing the powers of local district attorneys.

When I talk to local district attorneys, they feel like they're fighting with one hand tied behind their back.»

Cuomo, saying there is a «crisis of confidence» in the criminal justice system, signed an executive order to have the state's attorney general take over from local district attorneys, anytime a unarmed civilian is killed in an encounter with police, and there are questions about what happened.

Criminal justice reform advocates called for the executive order because they believed that local district attorneys have a natural conflict of interest when it comes to investigating the police because the two agencies work so closely together to gain convictions.

«The WFP's role in other campaigns is under investigation by the city Campaign Finance Board, local district attorneys and possibly the attorney general.»

Mollen wants to leave the cases in the hands of local district attorneys.

Republicans in the state Senate have resisted the idea of a special monitor, saying it's best left to local district attorneys.

He says the local district attorneys have full jurisdiction, and state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli could make what's known as a referral to Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, and the state legislature could be holding hearings.