“If you don’t invest in them and you don’t fund them properly, you’re not going to allow those reforms to actually succeed.”
McGuire argued not only do the DA offices lack the staff to handle the workload, but the result is also causing a “bottleneck” in cases.“That results in a higher percentage of cases being dismissed, it results in more people sitting at Rikers.”
The new hires would help alleviate the backlog of discovery documents, as well as work through future cases to expedite the overall process.
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