Will the Sky Fall Today on New York Justice?
Simple Justice: When the New York Times runs an editorial with the headline, Repairing New York’s Justice System, my pulse quickens and breath grows short. Could this be the one that finally deals with the wholesale absence of discovery, the use of flawed identifications to convict the innocent? Maybe they will finally nail testilying cops to the wall? Is it the death knell of the Rockefeller drug laws, putting mules in prison forever for a couple ounces of dope?
Then comes the opening line:
New York’s justice system has fallen into crisis. Yet Albany is not dealing with three big problems dragging the system down — missing judicial pay raises, glaring deficiencies in indigent defense services and the swelling workload overwhelming Family Court.
Sigh. I know it’s been a slow couple of weeks in the criminal law field. No hot new murders. No major new issues before the Supremes. But this is just pathetic.
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