The article critiques the funding of the Legal Aid Society by New York taxpayers, totaling over $290 million since 2012. It highlights how this group, alongside others, utilizes loopholes in discovery laws to dismiss cases against criminals, particularly impacting domestic abuse victims. The projected results of this legal maneuvering include a stark increase in dismissed cases and a 30% surge in major crimes. Although Governor Hochul proposes sensible reforms to ease these issues, there remains resistance from Legal Aid, prioritizing criminal rights over public safety.
Groups like Legal Aid then search for some document, any document, that didn't get shared within the deadline - and poof: The judge throws out the case.
Since 2012, taxpayers have shelled out more than a $290 million to the Legal Aid Society - which... is now using its resources to preserve "discovery" legal loopholes.
Gov. Hochul would tighten the law in ways that are simply common sense. She'd require defendants to show that any "failure" on evidence actually harmed their case.
The number of cases dismissed... spiked from 8,282 in 2019 to a 45,970 last year - a 455% jump.
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