Staten Island DA slams NY state lawmakers for ‘band-aid’ tweak to bail reform

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Staten Island District Attorney Michael McMahon said a new change in the state’s controversial criminal justice reforms to allow bail on some cases falls short of addressing spiking crime.

reforms is nothing more than “a band-aid on a gaping wound,” Staten Island’s top prosecutor said Sunday.

“So the commercial burglar, who’s really terrorizing New York City now, or the drug dealer or the person who has a gun history, a history of violence, has a history of violating orders of protection, they will still not be bail eligible,” McMahon continued. The $229 billion spending package eliminates the “least restrictive” clause in the law. But judges are still prohibited from setting bail in most cases.

 

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