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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.
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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.
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.
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.
He neutralized Schneiderman by appointing him special prosecutor in all cases where a cop kills a possibly unarmed civilian.
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.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mr. Attisani served as a special prosecutor in the Suffolk County (City of Boston) District Attorney's Office, where he tried 19 cases to verdict.