New York’s skewed criminal justice laws have let domestic abusers walk free , Gov. Kathy Hochul said Monday as she amped up her crusade to fix the onerous evidence-related mandates.
Hochul blamed the laws — which require prosecutors to speedily hand over a mass of discovery evidence to defense attorneys, or else have the case dismissed — for a statewide drop in domestic violence convictions.
Those convictions stood at 31% when the laws were passed in 2019, but now stand at 6% — depriving victims of both safety and justice, Hochul contended.
“We can no longer turn a blind eye to their cries for help,” she said following a roundtable discussion in Albany, during which she met with domestic violence and sexual assault survivors…