Legislative Gazette: Budget includes compromise on bail reform and judicial discretion


“Now, discovery laws have been extended to 20 calendar days and allowed some information to be non-discoverable.

“The [amendments to] discovery provisions will also deny people facing criminal charges access to crucial and potentially exculpatory witness information. These are not small tweaks; they have bludgeoned reform just as it was taking root,” said the Bronx Defenders in a press release on April 3.”

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