Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman has begun an aggressive campaign to achieve his top legislative priority: passage of a court system reform that would raise to 18 from 16 the age of criminal responsibility for non-violent crimes.
“You’ve got to sell it and you have to explain it and you’ve got to gather the support and build some momentum. That’s how things get done in this state,” Lippman said in an interview yesterday after he delivered his pitch on juvenile justice to about 150 prosecutors at the New York Prosecutors Training Institute’s continuing legal education program in Brooklyn.
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