Sentences with phrase «proposed raising the age of criminal responsibility»

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Cuomo pushed this year to raise the age of criminal responsibility, but his proposed legislation did not advance through the Legislature.

Some of the items in Cuomo's Promise Agenda are reliant on the state Legislature, where Republicans who control the Senate have been unsupportive of the Dream Act, codifying Roe v. Wade into state law, raising the age of adult criminal responsibility, and more that Cuomo has proposed.

The Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., said the Legislature should raise the age of criminal responsibility for nonviolent offenses to 18, as the governor proposed earlier and as Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman of the State Court of Appeals has also advocated.