When prosecutors in New York show up to work Thursday for their first day in the office of the new year, they’ll find their practice of law transformed as the state’s new laws on cash bail, criminal discovery, and the right to a speedy trial finally take effect.

It’s been eight months since the state Legislature approved the new laws, since which prosecutors have said the changes, particularly to criminal discovery, will fail without additional funding from the state.

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