When Donald Trump is arraigned on this apparent NY indictment, WCPD hopes that court will follow the law and the Constitution and set the least restrictive means to ensure Trump's return to court. Because pre-trial freedom should be the presumption. For everyone.

Required reading: Matt Van Houten, Tompkins County DA, on the need to protect bail reform: lawmakers must reject “any and all efforts to remove the current standard… If we don’t protect bail reform, both justice and safety will be jeopardized.” buffalonews.com/opinion/anothe…

None of this is needed and driven by fear-mongering and politics. @CarlHeastie Sen. Stewart-Cousins hold the line. You know that is the right thing to do.

Here The Legal Aid Society we renew our urgent call to Sen. Stewart-Cousins, @CarlHeastie & members of the Legislature to continue to reject Governor Kathy Hochul regressive rollbacks to New York’s successful bail reform law." legalaidnyc.org/news/legislatu…

Defenders: New York State Senate & NY Assembly Majority Hold the Line on Bail Reform CDANY Pres Mark Funk: Governor Kathy Hochul insists on rollbacks that would result in more low-income people deprived of liberty pretrial, despite clear & overwhelming data that #bailreform is working. #NYSBudget

CNN just said that a misdemeanor conviction in NY is just a fine. Hmm. WCPD has had thousands of jailed clients who would disagree strongly with that, and point out the permanent damage "just" a misdemeanor can cause, for life. Sloppy reporting. CNN And let's pass #cleanslateny

Not satisfied with merely changing the bail laws to jail more New Yorkers awaiting trial, the Governor is now attempting to use the budget process to roll back the discovery laws, making it harder for those same New Yorkers to see the evidence in their case.

CDANY Statement RE Rumored Gutting of NY's Discovery Laws We are appalled but not surprised to learn that certain DAs have waged a covert campaign to effectively gut the historic successful discovery reforms passed in '19. More: bit.ly/CDANYDiscBudge… New York State Senate NY Assembly Majority

NYSDA Urges Lawmakers to Reject Changes to Discovery and Bail Laws

CDANY Calls on the Legislature to Hold The Line on #DiscoveryReform - So-Called Tweaks Would Be Devastating #nysbudget New York State Senate New York Senate Dems NY Assembly Majority

Three NYC DAs have been pushing for discovery rollbacks behind closed doors for months. Why? Because fairness is apparently too hard to figure out. So they have worked in the dark to gut the law during the opaque budget process. This should be a hard NO. gothamgazette.com/games-archive/…

NYSDA joined numerous defenders across the state to call on legislators not to compromise on discovery reform cityandstateny.com/policy/2023/04…

Over 50 Public Defense offices and agencies sent a letter to NY's lawmakers in opposition to rollbacks to current #discoverylaws. Read more at CDANY.info. NYSACDL NYSDA New York State Senate New York Senate Dems NY Assembly Majority

Defender offices speak in a unified voice against any back door, last minute changes to discovery laws, slipped into the budget, no less. Yet the NYC DAs claim defense lawyers are "lying in wait" and playing games. Please. cityandstateny.com/policy/2023/04…

The budget is still not final and NYSACDL remains strongly opposed to the Governor Kathy Hochul's proposed rollbacks to bail laws. These changes will send more Black and brown New Yorkers to deadly jails. We ask the legislature to stand firm. NYS Senate Democrats NY Assembly Majority

NYSDA calls on lawmakers to stand firm again bail law changes.

WCPD placed this editorial in the Rochester D+C last week urging NY legislators continue to protect discovery reform. Thank you for funding fairness. We can confirm it's working. Governor Kathy Hochul Sen. Stewart-Cousins @CarlHeastie

WCPD's 2nd Assistant Arline Hanna was today sworn-in as a member of the Bar of the U.S. Supreme Court. What an honor for a great lawyer.

Pass Clean Slate now! Endless punishment is not justice. #cleanslateNY

HESC/DALF can stave off the extreme attrition at DA's and PD's offices by helping with our crushing student debt. @CarlHeastie it's imperative to bring Jo Anne Simon 文雅麗 🟧 bill: A1568B to a floor vote ASAP so we can keep doing this important work. #ExpandStudentLoanRelief