Attorneys for Public Advocate Letitia James and three advocacy groups urged a state Appellate Division panel at a hearing June 16 to open up records of the Eric Garner grand jury, an action they said would answer questions about whether the criminal-justice system had performed fairly and inform debate about whether the grand-jury system needed to be changed.
“We can’t make a judgment about what the nature of the reform should be without really knowing” what went on behind closed doors, said Arthur Eisenberg, legal director of the New York Civil Liberties Union.
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