Sentences with phrase «police cases where»

The governor says he will use his executive powers to remove 16 - and 17 - year olds from adult prisons, and appoint the attorney general for a one year term as a special prosecutor in police cases where a civilian is killed.

Thy include changes to the criminal justice laws, including raising the age from 16 to 18 to treat teenagers as adults in the court and prison system, and appointing a special prosecutor in police cases where an unarmed civilian is killed.

He proposes to create a statewide reconciliation commission to address police / community relations; recruit more minorities into law enforcement; make publicly available race and ethnic data on police actions; buy replacement vests, body cameras and bullet - proof glass for patrol cars in high crime areas; appoint an independent monitor to review police cases where an unarmed civilian dies and the case is not presented to the grand jury, or the grand jury fails to indict.

In his State of the State address in January, Cuomo announced plans to introduce an independent monitor, such as a retired judge to review police cases where an unarmed civilian is killed and the case is not presented to a grand jury.

Not exact matches

However, on this road - trip, he finds himself in a situation where he has to hitch - hike in the wintery dawn, or face possible police - entanglements, and it simply won't work to be thumbing rides, while trying to hold onto a guitar - case and a cat.

... the United Nations said today, citing a case in Chile where police are investigating the theft of some 5,000 kilograms of millennia - old ice from the Jorge Montt glacier....

Before ruling against joint custody, the court may also consider hospital and police records (in cases of abuse or where allegations of abuse are present) as well as character witnesses.

Actions against protesters included «unlawful killings and beatings by police during protests and house - to - house operations», HRW said, adding there were at least three cases where women alleged police had raped them.

But this is not always the case in states where policing and emergency services are weak, and authorities are inimical and deliberately aggressive in their strategies of crowd control.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order last year that authorized Schneiderman to investigate cases where police killed unarmed civilians and cases where «there is a significant question as to whether the civilian was armed and dangerous at the time of his or her death.»

The order appoints the state attorney general as a special prosecutor in cases where unarmed suspects are killed by police, or when there is a question about whether a suspect was armed or not.

He also proposed lifting some of the secrecy that surrounds the grand jury process, and the creation of a special monitor to investigate cases where a citizen dies after an encounter with a police officer, and the officer is not indicted.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has appointed the state attorney general as a temporary special prosecutor to over see cases where a civilian is killed by a police officer.

My instinct would be that the best (and pretty weak) case for good faith, reasonable proportionality, etc would relate not at all to the group of protestors who were contained, but either to some argument relating to the resource pressures of policing adjacent events, fears of the risks of issues involved in one becoming mixed up in the other, etc, etc which (at its very best) would be a highly pre-emptive and precautionary approach to a situation where there was no existing problem to be contained.

Three district attorneys have joined Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel Abelove in challenging the constitutionality of an executive order Cuomo signed two years ago allowing the state attorney general to intervene in cases where unarmed civilians are killed during confrontations with police.

Cuomo said the order was necessary because there is a «crisis of confidence in the criminal justice system» following several high profile cases in New York City and across the country where police have killed unarmed men.

The latter plaque recognized the governor for signing an executive order last June that made state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman the special prosecutor for all cases where a police officer kills a possibly unarmed civilian, which Mr. Sharpton called «the only national model» for handling deaths at the hands of local law enforcement.

Family members of those who died during encounters with police met Tuesday with Governor Andrew Cuomo in Albany, where the governor agreed to a compromise with the families about appointing a special prosecutor in such cases.

Retired Troy Police Detective Sgt. Patrick Bornt leaves the Rensselaer City Hall Thursday Sept. 28, 2017 in Rensselaer, N.Y. where a grand jury is hearing the case against Rensselaer County District Attorney

Retired Troy Police Detective Sgt. Patrick Bornt leaves the Rensselaer City Hall Thursday Sept. 28, 2017 in Rensselaer, N.Y. where a grand jury is hearing the case against Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel Abelove.

The executive order enables the attorney general to step in and supercede county district attorneys in cases where police kill an unarmed civilian or in cases where there are questions about whether the civilian who was killed was armed or dangerous.

After the governor's proposals to elevate the threshold of adult criminality to 18 years and to create a special monitor to review cases where a grand jury decides not to indict a police officer for killing a potentially unarmed civilian failed to make headway in the State Senate, Mr. Cuomo rolled out a pair of executive orders.

In cases where the Police fail to deploy the right number of personnel to hotspots and poorly equipping them, the Elections Security Officer must insist on having the full compliment.

«The sharing of information by the MPS [Metropolitan Police Service] with the Home Office is assessed on a case by case basis so is not routinely carried out and will only occur where police have a genuine concern that an individual is in the country illegally&Police Service] with the Home Office is assessed on a case by case basis so is not routinely carried out and will only occur where police have a genuine concern that an individual is in the country illegally&police have a genuine concern that an individual is in the country illegally»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo mentioned the Garner case when he appointed Attorney General Eric Schneiderman as a special prosecutor to handle cases where unarmed civilians are killed by police.

The House cited the case of Bayelsa State, where it said the Joint Task Force and the police had killed four «innocent Nigerians» in the last two weeks.

In the Greater Accra Region, Citi News» Lawrence Segbefia reported that, the exercise has been peaceful at the Nungua Police station, where special voters in the Krowor constituency were casing their votes.

Last week, the Senate finance committee voted down a bill that would give the attorney general responsibility for investigating cases where an unarmed civilian dies during a confrontation with police.

Bratton made a case for increasing police headcount during a raucous CIty Council budget hearing Thursday where a woman was arrested and 25 others expelled from the chambers for yelling through the police commissioner's presentation.

That order appoints Attorney General Eric Schneiderman as special prosecutor in cases where a police officer kills an unarmed civilian, or there's question of whether the person was armed.

Cuomo initially sought to create a special monitor to look into questionable cases where an unarmed civilian dies after an encounter with police, but he faced resistance from GOP Senators.

Donovan, a former Staten Island prosecutor, said he took no action before or after O'Connell's arrest, and added that neither O'Connell nor anyone from the Staten Island police precinct where O'Connell was arrested contacted him about the case.

The state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has already asked Gov. Andrew Cuomo for an executive order to empower the attorney general to investigate and, if warranted, prosecute cases where unarmed civilians are killed by police officers.

John Reid has been discussing upping the 28 - day limit with police and today put their case to the weekly cabinet meeting, where ministers agreed to look at the question again.

Since that announcement, we have passed secondary legislation to enable the police to prosecute an extra 150,000 cases through to completion by giving them the power to continue to prosecute where a defendant does not turn up in court or pleads exceptional hardship.

«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 Assange case is unique because the police know exactly where he is and just can't go get him.

«Laura Crane and I have heard of many cases where problems have arisen because police and other criminal justice professionals know very little about autism,» says Dr Maras.

The prosecutor said the case was later referred to the Domestic Violence Victims Support Unit, (DOVVSU), of the Agona Swedru Divisional Police Command, where Newton admitted to the offence.

Among those discussed is allowing the release of evidence and testimony heard by a grand jury in cases where a civilian is killed by police.

His latest statements allude to dangerous loopholes that would authorize a special prosecutor for only one year and would fail to cover all cases where civilians are killed by the police or die in police custody.

The base - tending started earlier this month, as Cuomo trumpeted an executive order designating Attorney General Eric Schneiderman as a special prosecutor in cases where civilians die at the hands of police.

(WBEN) Buffalo Police are investigating a case where a drug suspect already up on charges was helping police with a public service video on the opioid epidemic, and allegedly went off script and took drugs with them nPolice are investigating a case where a drug suspect already up on charges was helping police with a public service video on the opioid epidemic, and allegedly went off script and took drugs with them npolice with a public service video on the opioid epidemic, and allegedly went off script and took drugs with them nearby.

The limitation in the executive order has raised questions among some district attorneys and others about whether the governor's order should have been written to give Schneiderman broader authority to intervene in any case where police use deadly force, whether or not someone dies.

District attorneys around New York are still trying to clarify a recent executive order from Cuomo that appoints the state attorney general as a special prosecutor in cases where unarmed suspects are killed by police, or when there is a question about whether a suspect was armed or not.

Other relevant case law includes a case where the Vancouver Police were fined by the human rights tribunal for, among other things, misgendering a trans woman by using her legal (male) name and male pronouns instead of her preferred name and pronouns.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has proposed requiring that his office investigate any cases where civilians are killed by police, a measure the prosecutors believe goes too far.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has appointed the state Attorney General as a temporary special prosecutor to oversee cases where a civilian is killed by a police officer.

His announcement Thursday comes as he has spent recent months trying to repair his relationship with the left - wing of the Democratic party by pushing to raise the minimum wage to $ 15 - an - hour and granting the Attorney General the power to investigate cases where the police shoot civilians.

Cuomo's feud with de Blasio appears to be helping insulate him from backlash he has faced from police unions for signing an executive order giving the Attorney General the ability to act as special prosecutor in cases where police kill unarmed civilians.