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Criminal Advocacy Committee

Overview

The Criminal Advocacy Committee focuses broadly on issues concerning the practice of criminal law.
Chairs
- Brian Adam Jacobs
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Reports
- New York City Must Lead to Protect People in Jails During COVID-19 Crisis (May 19, 2020)
  
  Author(s): Corrections & Community Reentry Committee Criminal Advocacy Committee Criminal Courts Committee Criminal Justice Operations Committee Mass Incarceration, Task Force on Coronavirus (COVID-19): City Bar Response and Resources
  
  Subject Area(s): Prisons NYC Jails
- Protect People in Prisons and Jails During COVID-19 Pandemic (May 15, 2020)
  
  Author(s): Corrections & Community Reentry Committee Criminal Advocacy Committee Criminal Courts Committee Criminal Justice Operations Committee Mass Incarceration, Task Force on Coronavirus (COVID-19): City Bar Response and Resources
  
  Subject Area(s): Prisons NYC Jails
- COVID-19 Response: Clemency for At-Risk Inmates in State Detention (March 25, 2020)
  
  Author(s): Criminal Advocacy Committee Corrections & Community Reentry Committee Coronavirus (COVID-19): City Bar Response and Resources
  
  Subject Area(s): Criminal Justice COVID-19/Coronavirus
- Delays Associated with Compiling the Record on Appeal in Criminal Cases: Letter (March 05, 2020)
  
  Author(s): Criminal Justice Operations Committee Criminal Advocacy Committee Criminal Courts Committee
  
  Subject Area(s): Criminal Justice
- Support for Legislation Permitting Jury Trials for B Misdemeanors (April 09, 2019)
  
  Author(s): Immigration & Nationality Law Committee Criminal Justice Operations Committee Criminal Advocacy Committee
  
  Subject Area(s): Immigration Criminal Offenses The Justice System
- Letter Regarding Judicial Advisory Committee on Evidence (April 06, 2017)
  
  Author(s): Criminal Law Committee Criminal Advocacy Committee Criminal Courts Committee Judicial Administration, Council on State Courts of Superior Jurisdiction Committee
  
  Subject Area(s): Rules of evidence (NYS)
- Report on legislation providing for the sealing of misdemeanor felony records (July 02, 2015)
  
  Author(s): Criminal Courts Committee Criminal Justice Operations Committee Corrections & Community Reentry Committee Criminal Advocacy Committee
  
  Subject Area(s): Sealing of Criminal Records Mass Incarceration
- Report on 2015-16 Executive Budget Proposal, the Criminal Justice Reform Act of 2015 (March 12, 2015)
  
  Author(s): Criminal Advocacy Committee Criminal Law Committee Criminal Courts Committee Criminal Justice Operations Committee Civil Rights Committee Criminal Justice, Community Relations & Civil Rights
  
  Subject Area(s): Grand Jury Criminal Justice
- The Need for More Effective Gun Safety Measures (February 01, 2014)
  
  Author(s): Criminal Advocacy Committee Criminal Law Committee
  
  Subject Area(s): Gun Control
- Amicus Brief: State of New York v. Thomas (New York State Court of Appeals, December 2013) (December 01, 2013)
  
  Author(s): Criminal Law Committee Criminal Advocacy Committee
  
  Subject Area(s): Interrogations, False Confessions
- 2013 Policy Recommendations for New York City's Next Mayor (May 01, 2013)
  
  Author(s): Animal Law Committee Banking Law Committee Children & the Law Committee Children, Council on Civil Court Committee Civil Rights Committee Consumer Affairs Committee Corrections & Community Reentry Committee Criminal Advocacy Committee Criminal Courts Committee Criminal Justice Operations Committee Criminal Law Committee Disability Law Committee Domestic Violence Committee Drugs & the Law Committee Education & the Law Committee Environmental Law Committee Housing & Urban Development Committee Monday Night Law/Moderate Means Committee Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Rights Committee Matrimonial Law Committee New York City Affairs Committee Real Property Law Committee Sex & Law Committee Social Welfare Law Committee Transportation Committee United Nations Committee
  
  Subject Area(s): NYC Policy Recommendations Transition Memo
- Continuing to Strengthen New York's Gun Laws (April 01, 2013)
  
  Author(s): Criminal Advocacy Committee Criminal Law Committee
  
  Subject Area(s): Gun Control
- Report on A.8547/S.5560 regarding the All Crimes DNA Act which would require the collection of a DNA sample from every person convicted of a felony or misdemeanor (June 2011) (June 01, 2011)
  
  Author(s): Criminal Advocacy Committee
  
  Subject Area(s): DNA, Collection of
- Comments on the Kaye Commission Report on Indigent Defense, May 2007 (June 01, 2007)
  
  Author(s): Criminal Justice Operations Committee Criminal Advocacy Committee
  
  Subject Area(s): Indigent Litigants Indigent Legal Services
- The Assignment of Judges In the Criminal Term of the Supreme Court in New York County (July 01, 2002)
  
  Author(s): Criminal Advocacy Committee Criminal Courts Committee
  
  Subject Area(s): Judicial Administration
News & Media
- Parole Law and Reform - 44th Street Podcast (April 19, 2019)
- Promotions, Not Punishments, for Officers Accused of Lying (The New York Times) (March 19, 2018)
- ‘Testilying’ by Police: A Stubborn Problem (The New York Times) (March 18, 2018)
- 2018 NYS Legislative Agenda: Advance criminal justice reform and policies that will reduce mass incarceration (February 05, 2018)
- He Excelled as a Detective, Until Prosecutors Stopped Believing Him (The New York Times) (October 10, 2017)
- Police Officer Testimony: A Quarter of a Century After the Mollen Commission (October 10, 2017)
- NYPD Investigating Officers' Alleged Misstatements in Court (New York Law Journal) (October 04, 2017)
- 2017 NYS Legislative Agenda: Advance criminal justice reform and policies that will reduce mass incarceration (March 02, 2017)
- Kings County Criminal Bar Association gets search and seizure update from Judge Kamins (Brooklyn Daily Eagle) (May 23, 2016)
- Panel at City Bar to Examine Influential 'De Bour' Ruling (New York Law Journal) (April 22, 2016)
- City Bar Releases 2016 State Legislative Agenda (February 16, 2016)
- City Bar Questions Cuomo's Grand Jury Reform Proposal (New York Law Journal) (March 24, 2015)
- City Bar Comments on Criminal Justice Reform Act of 2015 (March 23, 2015)
- In Amicus Brief, City Bar Criticizes Coercive Interrogation Tactics in People v. Thomas (December 10, 2013)
- A More Rational Approach to Incarceration - Carey R. Dunne (August 10, 2013)
Of Interest

Policy Recommendations for New York City's Next Mayor (PDF)

Criminal Advocacy Committee

The Criminal Advocacy Committee focuses broadly on issues concerning the practice of criminal law.

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Policy Recommendations for New York City's Next Mayor (PDF)

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