Judge: NY killers, burglars, robbers, bail jumpers must be freed under ‘dangerous’ bail law - syracuse.com: Syracuse, NY -- As his courtroom waited, Onondaga County Court Judge Stephen Dougherty launched Friday morning into an extraordinary evisceration of New York’s new bail law.
“I refuse to call it bail reform,” Dougherty said, noting he’s never voiced his objection so publicly in nearly two decades as a judge. “The governor and the legislature, in my opinion, by this legislation usurped the discretion of the judiciary, a co-equal branch of the government.”
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