Hochul follows through on key clemency reform
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Last week, Governor Kathy Hochul granted clemency to seven New Yorkers, marking the first time she’s followed through on her promise to grant clemency on a rolling basis.
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Six Queens prosecutors named in new batch of misconduct complaints
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A group of law professors this week released around a dozen prosecutorial misconduct complaints, over half which were made against current and former prosecutors with the Queens district attorney's office.
Read MoreHochul grants clemencies, gives updates on reforms
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Governor Kathy Hochul granted clemency to a little more than a dozen New Yorkers on Wednesday, and publicly shared, for the first time, updates to the clemency reforms she promised a year ago but has been slow to act on.
Read MoreWhile some clemency reforms quietly take shape, advocates look to gov for more
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On Christmas Eve of last year, Governor Kathy Hochul announced that she planned to reform the state’s clemency process, one which advocates have long said is antiquated and opaque. While a number of those reforms have begun to take shape in recent months, others, including the one advocates say is the most important, have yet to see the light of day.
Read MoreA lifetime later, Queens man released from prison
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Robert Webster, who served 34 years of a 50 year to life sentence for two arsons he says he didn’t commit, was released from prison last week. His arrest, conviction, sentencing, incarceration and release highlight a number of flaws in the criminal justice system, advocates say.
Read MoreGovernor Hochul yet to enact major clemency reforms
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Governor Kathy Hochul said changes to the clemency process were coming – half a year later, few have come to pass.
Read MoreProfessors’ free speech rights violated in case against Queens DA
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A group of New York law professors had their right to free speech violated last year when the city’s top attorney attempted to prevent them from publicly publishing a number of misconduct claims against nearly two dozen current and former Queens prosecutors, a judge ruled this week.
Read MoreDeadly Brink's heist driver paroled after 37 years in prison
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Clark was seen by supporters as a symbol of the need for clemency if the prison system were to live up to its ideals as an institution of rehabilitation.
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