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Williams Blasts Calls To Make 'Dangerouness' Factor in Bail

By RICHARD KHAVKINE
Posted 1/10/20

Pushing back against efforts to weaken new bail rules, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams said they must remain undiluted if there is to be equity in the justice system.

At a press conference outside Manhattan Criminal Court Jan. 7, Mr. Williams and others said the new rules—which prohibit Judges from setting money bail for most people charged with misdemeanors, non-violent felonies and even violent robbery and violent burglary charges, and went into effect on New Year’s Day—were an essential corrective to an unjust criminal-justice structure that favored the wealthy.

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