Sentences with phrase «reviewed by a grand jury»

Columbia County District Attorney Paul Czajka and the State Police are investigating the incident, which is being reviewed by a grand jury.

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ALBANY — During an interview on CNN, Governor Andrew Cuomo repeated before a national audience his pledge for a «soup - to - nuts» review of the criminal justice program in light of the surprising and «corrosive» decision by a Staten Island grand jury not to indict a police officer involved in the fatal arrest of Eric Garner.

It is the first time the AG has done this since an executive order in July that requires his office to begin independent reviews of certain categories of civilian killings by police officers and, if the evidence warrants, present the evidence to a special grand jury.

The judge added that, after his review of the grand jury minutes, he found the case against Ortt by Schneiderman was «legally insufficient» to proceed.

Henry Wojtaszek, her husband, had testified before a federal grand jury reviewing the campaign expenditures and the grand jury empaneled by Schneiderman.

After French was cleared, Schneiderman accused Abelove of making an «end run» around Cuomo's executive order by rushing the case before the grand jury at a time when the attorney general's office said it would review the shooting.

Schneiderman accused Abelove of making an «end run» around Cuomo's executive order by secretly rushing the case before a grand jury that cleared Sgt. Randall French of wrongdoing before the attorney general's office could review the shooting.

The AG empaneled a grand jury in September, the first time it has done so under the executive order, to review evidence pertaining to Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel Abelove's handling of the fatal shooting of Edson Thevenin by a Troy police officer last year.

Mr. Skelos predicted that the final budget would also drop a proposal by the governor to create an independent monitor to review grand jury investigations into killings of unarmed civilians by police officers.

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