After a grand jury chose not to indict a police officer involved in the death of Eric Garner last year, Democratic leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins called for the placement of body cameras on police officers and introduced legislation that would require the use of
a special prosecutor in cases involving police officers who kill unarmed legislation.
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman will be appointed
a special prosecutor in cases involving police - related deaths of unarmed civilians after Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers failed to reach a broader agreement on criminal justice reform measures.
Donovan's office is
special prosecutor in a case involving an associate of Lopez, the Brooklyn Democratic chairman who is under investigation for questionable spending at non-profits he founded and which rake in millions in public dollars.
The organization, of which Schneiderman had been a member before his resignation, has had a prickly relationship with Cuomo over the governor's 2015 executive order that gave Schneiderman the authority to intervene as
a special prosecutor in cases involving fatal encounters between police and unarmed civilians.
Not exact matches
Updated 3:26 p.m. The criminal assault trial of Kevin S. Parker, a state senator from central Brooklyn, was thrown into turmoil on Thursday, as a judge granted the Brooklyn district attorney's office's request to have two
special prosecutors appointed — one who would take over the
case, and another who would investigate possible improprieties by an assistant district attorney not directly
involved in the proceeding.
A lawyer for the ex-fiance of disgraced Queens pol Hiram Monserrate demanded her client be given a
special prosecutor Thursday
in her ongoing domestic violence
case involving a new boyfriend...
Stewart - Cousins said she would support either appointing a
special prosecutor in future
cases involving police deaths or have Schneiderman's office take on that role directly until legislation ca be passed.
He did say he did not expect any such changes to occur
in a
special session, and said there are many unanswered questions about the parameters
in which a state - level
special prosecutor — perhaps the attorney general, or some newly appointed official — would become
involved in a
case.
In the months following, Cuomo signed an executive order appointing Attorney General Eric Schneiderman as a
special prosecutor to oversee
cases of police -
involved civilian deaths.
The
case is one of the first Schneiderman's office has examined since Gov. Andrew Cuomo named him
special prosecutor earlier this month, granting him the power to investigate and if necessary prosecute police officers
involved in the death of an unarmed civilian.
Schneiderman
Special Prosecutor Case: Earlier this week Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced that his first case as special prosecutor in police involved deaths of unarmed civilians would investigate the circumstances surrounding Raynette Turner's
Special Prosecutor Case: Earlier this week Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced that his first case as special prosecutor in police involved deaths of unarmed civilians would investigate the circumstances surrounding Raynette Turner's de
Case: Earlier this week Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced that his first
case as special prosecutor in police involved deaths of unarmed civilians would investigate the circumstances surrounding Raynette Turner's de
case as
special prosecutor in police involved deaths of unarmed civilians would investigate the circumstances surrounding Raynette Turner's
special prosecutor in police
involved deaths of unarmed civilians would investigate the circumstances surrounding Raynette Turner's death.
A day after activists and the families of civilians killed by police demonstrated outside Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Midtown office, they joined him at John Jay College as he signed an executive order making Attorney General Eric Schneiderman the
special prosecutor for all
cases statewide
in which an officer is responsible for a civilian's death — making New York the first state to create such a role to oversee the controversial issue of police -
involved homicides.
Despite that, it is equally clear that the very small financial donation
in this
case has had significant repercussions for each of the Solicitor General, the governing party of British Columbia, the Attorney General's criminal justice branch, and the
special prosecutor and law firm
involved.