When it comes to drugs, both say they will decline to prosecute certain charges, like buy-and-busts for methadone, and reject the use of coercive drug courts. How Many Drug Prosecutions Will They Decline?
ELIZA ORLINS FOR DA PROFESSIONAL
Growing up in an over-policed and over-prosecuted community and working as a criminal defense and civil litigator, gives me the personal and professional experience to understand” the need for criminal-legal reform. “Having my father serve 22 years in prison undoubtedly influences how I approach the need to reform the justice system,” she told Filter in a statement, though adding “my lived experience outside of this experience also informed my positions. “Prosecutors spend their days ruining people’s lives, and not caring or thinking about the human beings.”įor Aboushi, it’s personal. I’ve seen the way in which the treatment they received by our court can change their lives,” she told Filter in an interview. “I’ve represented over 3,000 people charged with crimes in Manhattan who couldn’t afford.
Orlins brands herself as an insider of the criminal legal system-just on the opposing side to the prosecutors. “Prosecutors spend their days ruining people’s lives.” They commit to cutting the Manhattan DA budget in half, making them the only candidates to agree to every policy outlined in a candidate questionnaire administered by Color of Change, ranging from refusing to ever seek life sentences to not prosecuting resisting-arrest charges. In some of the first candidate debates in the race thus far-one held on January 27 by the organization Color of Change and another the next day by digital media site, The Appeal-Aboushi and Orlins worked to stake their place as the most progressive candidates. Marton says he’s “glad to see both Orlins and Aboushi have embraced” it, setting them “ahead of the other candidates on that issue, though they could both talk about it more.” Two progressive-identifying candidates, public defender Eliza Orlins and civil rights attorney Tahanie Aboushi, are ideologically aligning themselves with Marton by agreeing to eliminate the Special Narcotics Prosecutor. The race remains a crowded field of eight candidates, with many attempting to distinguish themselves as progressive alternatives in a city rocked by reformist protests and abolitionist uprisings over the summer, and in a country where the role of the prosecutor is being reimagined with a bent towards shrinking the criminalization footprint. “You can’t be serious about ending the War on Drugs if you’re not for abolishing that unaccountable office.” The policy was in part informed by Filter contributor Rory Fleming’s thinking on the issue. “We were the only campaign in the race to release a comprehensive drug policy platform, and the centerpiece was abolishing the office of Special Narcotics Prosecutor,” Marton told Filter. His policies included abolishing the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor-a division created in 1971 by former New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller at the dawn of the state’s modern reboot of the drug war, and solely tasked with prosecuting drug felonies.
On December 14, criminal justice reformer Janos Marton announced he was ending his campaign.
After the December 2020 exit of a progressive candidate with a bold drug policy reform platform from the Manhattan district attorney race, two other progressives are arguing that they will make the biggest dent in the war against people who use drugs.
0 kommentar(er)
