Cases are moving faster through New York’s courts, reducing the amount of time defendants have to wait on Rikers Island – but a number of entrenched obstacles could make even quicker case processing difficult to achieve, the state’s top administrative judge warned last week.
Read MoreAs negotiations over changes to the state’s evidence-sharing laws hold up the passage of the state’s budget in Albany, a recent criminal case in Queens appears to highlight the core of the debate over discovery.
Read MoreA controversial proposal to rollback the state’s 2019 discovery reforms was struck from the state’s budget at the final moments this week.
Read MoreSeveral New York City district attorneys are pushing leaders in Albany to include rollbacks to the state’s discovery reforms into the state’s budget, sources with knowledge of the negotiations told the Eagle.
Read MoreThe Legal Aid Society says that in the nearly three years since the state’s discovery reform laws went into effect, the Queens district attorney’s office has yet to create a logical and organized way to share evidence with criminal defense attorneys.
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