The embattled governor doubled down on threats to hold up a state budget deal unless the state Senate and Assembly give in on her bail proposal.
“I want to remove any question about whether a judge has discretion to set bail or remand individuals,” she said at an Albany press conference.The governor has proposed for serious crimes that the state nix existing law requiring judges to give criminal defendants the “least restrictive” conditions ahead of their trials – whether or not the charged offense was bail eligible.
“We’re not staying silent anymore,” Assemblywoman Latrice Walker , a leading proponent of bail reform, said at the Capitol Wednesday. “The gloves are off.” “As I’ve always said, you’re not going to incarcerate people into crime dropping,” Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie told reporters last week. “I’m willing to sit down and always be willing to sit down, as is Speaker Heastie, to really figure out if there is something that would make it clear, but quite honestly, we have always looked at data,” state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins said last week.
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