Sentences with phrase «move on criminal justice»

The governor is expected to move on criminal justice reforms in the wake of the death of Eric Garner and a Staten Island grand jury's decision not to indict the officer who put him in a fatal chokehold.

In the last several weeks, the governor has made multiple moves on criminal justice reform, announcing that he would overhaul solitary confinement in state prisons as well as conditionally pardoning individuals who committed a non-violent felony or misdemeanor at the age of 16 or 17 and have lived a law abiding life for a decade.

Not exact matches

Capping how long cases can go on and putting pressure on the system to speed up case processing will help move Rikers toward the 5,000 - population goal while also reducing the impact the criminal justice system can have on individuals, she added.

Scott Parslow, a 27 - year veteran state worker from Tribes Hill, said many of his colleagues at the Division of Criminal Justice Services worried their move from suburban Stuyvesant Plaza to the Alfred E. Smith building on Swan Street would toss them into the downtown parking grind.

While moving the application brought under Section 35 (1) & (4) and 36 (5) and (6) of the 1999 constitution and Section 158, 162, 163 & 165 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015, Eze urged the court to exercise its discretion in favour of his client by releasing him on bail pending trial.

A pair of police reform measures vigorously opposed by New York City's largest officers union is moving toward passage in the City Council, a last - ditch effort by its departing speaker, Melissa Mark - Viverito, who has staked her legacy on criminal justice reform.

Asked for more detail on how Stringer got to the three - year goal and what that «data analysis» looked like, the comptroller's office told Gotham Gazette that the ten - year timeline is simply too long, that if New York wants to be a leader in criminal justice reform, it must move faster.

The tangled case of alleged Islamic State supporter Arafat Nagi has moved another step forward in the criminal justice process, with his indictment on two counts, including attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.

In a further move, the criminal justice and immigration bill, which is expected to receive royal assent today, introduces annual statutory reviews of serious Asbos on all those under 18 to pave the way for other interventions if necessary.

«This set of reforms helps to move the criminal «justice» system closer to actual justice and away from an overreliance on arrests, prosecution and jail for low - level offenses,» said Tina Luongo, the attorney in charge of the criminal defense practice at the Legal Aid Society.

Strategies for moving local policy change forward and the role of the criminal justice system are also on the agenda.

In the Democratic - led Assembly, meanwhile, criminal justice concerns include a focus on reform efforts, such as moving criminal cases involving 16 and 17 year olds to juvenile court, a measure that has stalled at the Capitol.

«This is change; this is reform; this is moving forward,» Ms. Mark - Viverito said in a phone interview on Tuesday, citing her criminal justice reform efforts.

While moving the bail application which was brought under section 35 (1) & (4) and 36 (5) and (6) of the 1999 constitution and section 158, 162, 163 & 165 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act 2015, Uche had urged the court to release his client on bail pending his trial.

At the March 19 board meeting, I'll be calling on our district leaders to move immediately to deprioritize criminal justice solutions to behavior problems in our schools.

The book then moves on to part II, «Challenges with Respect to the Administration of Justice and Criminal Procedure».

By navigating the often complex criminal justice system, an experienced lawyer will aggressively present your case in the best possible way, so you can obtain the best possible outcome and move on with your life.

The American criminal justice system is far from being sufficiently enlightened, starting by too many presumed - innocent people caged without bond pending sentencing, moving to Virginia's crabbed criminal discovery system, continuing to Virginia's system that allows prosecutors to scare defendants to plead guilty by their refusal to waive a jury that in many instances and locations can mean more racist jurors than judges on top of the jurors often being more wild cards than judges for sentencing, continuing to the many judges who choose judicial efficiency over a fair trial, continuing to the brutal capital punishment system, cntinuing to excessive mandatory minimum and guideline sentencing, and continuing to the slew of innocent convicted people (many of whom plead gulilty rather than risking a worse fate), and continuing to frequently excessive sentences and excessive probation violation sentences.

Whatever one thinks about the Court's purported moves to the right on other issues, in the arena of criminal sentencing, federal defendants certainly should be more hopeful arguing before the current Justices than before any other group of appellate judges.