Presaging Possible Legislative Debate, Dutchess County DA Opposes Bail Reform
Dutchess County District Attorney William Grady considers recent policy shifts moving away from requesting monetary bail in misdemeanor and violations cases to be “somewhat misguided.”
January 11, 2018 at 06:19 PM
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Dutchess County District Attorney William Grady considers recent policy shifts away from requesting monetary bail in misdemeanor and violations cases “somewhat misguided,” and prosecutors in his upstate county will not be joining their counterparts in Manhattan and Brooklyn in such a shift, he told the Law Journal this week.
“I'm not about to endorse the plan put forward by [Manhattan] DA [Cyrus] Vance [and Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez], because I think we [prosecutors] must be able to argue for bail wherever we feel it's appropriate, in each and every case,” Grady said in an interview prompted by reports on Tuesday of both Vance's policy change and a civil rights-based lawsuit launched against Dutchess County over its bail practices.
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