Manhattan DA's office drops more than 3,000 open marijuana cases
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Re: Manhattan DA's office drops more than 3,000 open marijuana cases
#2Will the DA’s office work to overturn previous convictions people are currently serving time for? Not meant to undermine this incredibly progressive action.
Re: Manhattan DA's office drops more than 3,000 open marijuana cases
#3Will the DA’s office work to overturn previous convictions people are currently serving time for? Not meant to undermine this incredibly progressive action.
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Re: Manhattan DA's office drops more than 3,000 open marijuana cases
#4Will the DA’s office work to overturn previous convictions people are currently serving time for? Not meant to undermine this incredibly progressive action.
The DA cannot do that AFAIK, unless the law changes.
The Governor could though.
Re: Manhattan DA's office drops more than 3,000 open marijuana cases
#5Will the DA’s office work to overturn previous convictions people are currently serving time for? Not meant to undermine this incredibly progressive action.
> this incredibly progressive action
..that never would've happened if Cuomo didn't feel real heat from Cynthia Nixon.
Re: Manhattan DA's office drops more than 3,000 open marijuana cases
#6I applaud the move. Curious that these cases stretch as far back as 1978, isn't there a statute of limitations for this sort of charge? If so, I would have expected the oldest to have been closed automatically decades ago.
Re: Manhattan DA's office drops more than 3,000 open marijuana cases
#7Will the DA’s office work to overturn previous convictions people are currently serving time for? Not meant to undermine this incredibly progressive action.
> this incredibly progressive action ..that never would've happened if Cuomo didn't feel real heat from Cynthia Nixon.
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Re: Manhattan DA's office drops more than 3,000 open marijuana cases
#8Will the DA’s office work to overturn previous convictions people are currently serving time for? Not meant to undermine this incredibly progressive action.
> this incredibly progressive action ..that never would've happened if Cuomo didn't feel real heat from Cynthia Nixon.
maybe this is true, maybe not. But polls show he is up 40 points on her[0]. Maybe internal polling shows a different race, but not clear to me from publicly available information that he is feeling "real heat".
0:https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2018/governor/ny/ne...
Re: Manhattan DA's office drops more than 3,000 open marijuana cases
#9Will the DA’s office work to overturn previous convictions people are currently serving time for? Not meant to undermine this incredibly progressive action.
The article states that the DA's action "does not apply to any cases where a defendant was convicted"
Re: Manhattan DA's office drops more than 3,000 open marijuana cases
#10Will the DA’s office work to overturn previous convictions people are currently serving time for? Not meant to undermine this incredibly progressive action.
> this incredibly progressive action ..that never would've happened if Cuomo didn't feel real heat from Cynthia Nixon.
Huh? This doesn't have anything to do with Cuomo. This is the New York County (Manhattan) DA, who is himself an elected official.