In what some in the legal community are calling a rare move, Staten Island District Attorney Michael McMahon issued sharp public criticism of his counterpart in Manhattan over the latter’s directive for his prosecutors to take a lighter approach to fighting crime.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat who was sworn in on Jan.1, issued a memo last week instructing his prosecutors to seek prison sentences and pretrial detention only for defendants charged with the most serious offenses. 

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