Sentences with phrase «local prosecutors»

Critics have said local prosecutors can not properly investigate or prosecute such cases because of their close relationships with police.

Her detention came a week after local prosecutors sought an arrest warrant.

The association that represents local prosecutors in Albany, similarly, did not close the door to backing the cashless bail proposal.

Questions about the campaign money, said Soufer, the AG's spokesman, will eventually gain the attention of local prosecutors.

Like many district attorneys statewide, Soares has criticized the order as an infringement on local prosecutors» role.

The state Board of Elections will refer three campaign committees found to be in violation of campaign finance laws to local prosecutors for potential prosecution for receiving donations for more than the legal contribution limit.

AG Eric Schneiderman is moving to change New York state law so that he and other local prosecutors would have the power to bring criminal charges against aides to Trump who have been pardoned, according to a letter Schneiderman sent to the governor and state lawmakers today.

Cuomo's criminal justice reforms have not always been embraced by local prosecutors, who have raised issues in the past to overhauling juvenile justice and an executive order giving the attorney general the power to investigate and prosecute cases in which civilians die in interactions with police.

Gerald Mollen, the Broome County district attorney and president of the District Attorneys Association of the State of New York, said he expected the governor's office would continue to consult with local prosecutors on each pardon, as it had done in the past.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said that lawmakers don't have a good reason for failing to update the state's antiquated criminal code and give local prosecutors the necessary tools to fight cybercrime, fraud and corruption.

The newspaper reported on Tuesday that local prosecutors decided not to pursue charges against Cuban seven years ago after a woman told Portland police that Cuban sexually assaulted her in a nightclub, claiming that he reached into her pants and penetrated her vagina with a finger without her permission while they posed for a photograph.

We have every reason to expect that to be abandoned and that means that either there will be no enforcement against these groups or local prosecutors got ta to do it.

Larson said he was contacted a week ago by the Justice Department and local prosecutors about representing the victims, prior to the dispute becoming public.

The Comptroller of the Currency blocked local prosecutors from moving against financial fraud, citing a small - print rule from the Civil War era National Bank Act giving federal agencies the right to override state agencies.

Multiple cases were found in Suffolk, Cortland, Erie, Montgomery, Otsego, and Wayne counties where violations went unreported to local prosecutors within the three - business day mandate outlined in the law.

«We have 62 counties in the state so, first of all, it will signal that you can't trust local prosecutors to handle these cases.

David Soares, a former local prosecutor, should be cannier about who his campaign funds profit.

A reform movement swept the nation in the mid-19th century, and the public won the right to elect local prosecutors.

Ours is the only nation in the world where local prosecutors are elected, a way for citizens to hold them accountable for the enormous power they wield on individual lives and our collective well - being.

Moreland Commission co - chair / Onondaga County DA Bill Fitzpatrick says people «erroneously thought we were super cops,» urges anyone with tips to contact local prosecutors.

Federal and local prosecutors announced, almost simultaneously, that they will not file criminal charges against the mayor or his aides.

«This legislation provides the tools to enable local prosecutors to regain their traditional role and responsibility in rooting out and prosecuting public corruption.»

Local prosecutor Lorin Willis (Dan Stevens) senses an easy victory.

This differs from a criminal case where the state or local prosecutor files the lawsuit, and a guilty person or party is punished with jail time, fines, probation, or a number of other penalties that can be handed down by a judge.

Billboard advocating jury nullification concerns local prosecutors Prospective jurors who take the subway to D.C. Superior Court and exit near the National Building Museum see these words: «Good jurors nullify bad laws» and «You -LSB-...]

Local prosecutors in Orlando, with the approval of the state's AG, are asking for the death penalty against «tot mom», Casey Anthony.

Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson, who impaneled the grand jury, has been an outspoken critic of Mr. Schneiderman's proposal, arguing it is an unworkable infringement upon the powers of local prosecutors.

ALDF has drafted a Model Law for a Private Right of Action, based on North Carolina's unique provision that, if passed in other states, would greatly reduce the burden on local prosecutors and allow concerned citizens and animal protection groups to stop the tragedy of hoarding in their own communities throughout the country.

Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman of New York is moving to change New York state law so that he and other local prosecutors would have the power to bring criminal charges against aides to President Donald Trump who have been pardoned, according to a letter Schneiderman sent to the governor and state lawmakers on Wednesday.

While many district attorneys opposed the law, Schneiderman's office said local prosecutors have been «cordial» and not attempted, before Abelove's «end - run» last week, to impede the attorney general's review of deadly incidents involving police use of force.

Officials believe that Meng was lying about his influence at the DA's Office and do not think there was any wrongdoing by local prosecutors.

2008)(successfully represented a statewide class of plaintiffs in California challenging the abusive practices of a debt collector that operated collection programs under contract with local prosecutors)

«I look forward to putting this controversy behind me,» Bud Schultz said in a letter to local prosecutors.

This position was certainly not that of the local prosecutor who felt police, but not citizens, had an expectation of privacy.

Without clear laws protecting citizen reporters, these outcomes could be a coin toss depending on the local prosecutor...

Citing the local prosecutor, French press agency AFP said he had now done so, arriving at a police station in Versailles shortly before 9 a.m. on Wednesday.

The AVIVI Association for Victims of Rape made a formal complaint before a local prosecutor on Monday.

Cox referred to Donovan's «strong record» as a local prosecutor and said he appreciated the DA's «thoughtful process» in determining whether he would throw his hat into the AG ring.

It also went a step further: It will indeed refer the issue to local prosecutors, including the U.S. Attorney's office.

I would encourage those people to call their local prosecutors,» he said.

Both issues have been central to federal and local prosecutors» probes of Nassau contracts, which account for hundreds of millions of dollars a year paid to outside companies.

Frustrated with the response of a state oversight agency, some New York lawmakers want to mandate that complaints about possible abuse or neglect of disabled or mentally ill people in state care be made first to 911 and local prosecutors.

Federal and local prosecutors said that there was insufficient evidence to bring criminal charges in the 2015 death of a prisoner at the Fishkill Correctional Facility who died after an altercation with a group of guards there.

The Staten Island DA race essentially boils down to just one question: What should the role of a local prosecutor be?

The Democratic attorney general spent last week going back and forth with the state's district attorneys over an executive order that Schneiderman investigate instances in which an unarmed civilian dies at the hands of police, essentially supplanting the local prosecutor.

Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman of New York is moving to change New York state law so that he and other local prosecutors would have the power to bring criminal charges against aides to President Trump who have been pardoned, according to a letter Mr. Schneiderman sent to the governor and state lawmakers on Wednesday.

Citing his law enforcement experience as a state attorney general and local prosecutor, Cuomo again declined to comment.