New York’s Highest Judge Seeks To Water Down the Grand Jury Right
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The chief judge of New York’s highest court, Jonathan Lippman, this week announced that the need for significant changes in grand-jury protocols is “obvious.” The only thing obvious to me is that the judge is veering off side.
Judge Lippman sprang the idea in his State of the Judiciary speech. He didn’t name Eric Garner but made it clear that his proposal grows from the climate of controversy after the refusal of a grand jury on Staten Island to indict any officers in the Garner case.
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