Governor Hochul is backing changes to NY's 2019 bail reforms, that, among other measures, would allow judges to set bail for additional charges and for repeat offenders. It would also grant judges more discretion to require bail in certain felony cases.
The remainder of Hochul’s plan focuses on other areas of state law. One measure would reduce the required number of illegal guns sold to trigger a gun-trafficking felony from five to two. Other proposals would make changes to recent state reforms regarding the discovery process and raising the age of criminal responsibility.
But based on recent comments by legislative leaders in Albany, the governor’s plan is likely to face headwinds. The Democrat-led Legislature and then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo approved the 2019 bail laws as part of the state budget that year. They argued the changes were necessary to avoid criminalizing poverty by requiring detention simply because a defendant couldn’t afford to pay bail before trial.
“It doesn’t matter who it was or what it was — pull your head out of the sand and make whatever changes you need to make to fix it and fix it now so people feel free to walk the streets once again and provide hope that their government is actually working,” said Cuomo, who has been trying to re-establish himself in the New York political sphere.
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