There are yet unconfirmed reports that the head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, announced late on Sunday, April 2nd, 2023. that his forces have raised the Russian flag over the administration building of the town of Bakhmut in Ukraine. There is no question that Bakhmut will fall. Zelensky has sent over 100,000 men…
The world RESET puppets are out numbered and out maneuvered! It’s Go Time! It’s true alright, Russia is once again the head of the UN Security Council, which has the task of ensuring international peace. The news was quick to blast that the last time Russia held that position was February 2022 when it allegedly…Continue…
David S Meyer Politics Outdoors The massive extended protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continue, even as protesters claim credit for a victory. Netanyahu has postponed consideration of a plan to severely limit the independence of the judiciary, frustrating hard right allies within his coalition and, for the moment at least, emboldening the opposition, as […]
AP Photo/Evan Vucci Caleb Howe Mediaite In a startling new poll result, ex-president Donald Trump has tripled his lead over Gov. Ron DeSantis following Thursday’s indictment news. Many pundits predicted that the indictment would help Trump in the 2024 GOP primary contest. Some, including former Trump attorney general Bill Barr, claim that the boost […]
Ryan Grim The Intercept Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., is circulating a letter among her House colleagues that calls on the Department of Justice to drop charges against Julian Assange and end its effort to extradite him from his detention in Belmarsh prison in the United Kingdom. The letter, a copy of which was obtained by […]
Historic events are unfolding. We are inside of the show called, “Come out from her my people!” It’s time to be an OUTSIDER! There are many nation leaders working together in an alliance of outsiders who desire sovereignty of nations. The two most talked about and the two leading the way are President Donald J.…Continue…
By Thomas Germain Gizmodo The dramatically named AMERICA Act would prohibit big companies from owning multiple parts of the digital ad ecosystem. A powerful and bizarre coalition of Senators have teamed up on a bill that could strike down the digital ad dominance of Google and Meta, though the proposed legislation never mentions those companies […]
The number of prosecutors fleeing the city’s district attorneys offices has spiraled in the wake of criminal justice reforms that have created what one ex-top prosecutor called “insanity.”
Sixty five assistant district attorneys, or about 12 percent of the staff, have resigned so far this year from Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s office, up from about 44 through the end of March. During all of 2021, 97 ADAs quit.
The situation is nearly the same in the office of Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez, where 67 of some 500 prosecutors, or about 13 percent, have also called it quits as of June 17. Another three resigned on Thursday, according to a source. That is compared to 84 who left in all of 2020 and 94 last year.
In the Bronx, 59 prosecutors have walked from January through May. Reps from the Queens and Staten Island DA offices did not respond to requests for data.
When Bragg took the helm of the Manhattan office in January, at least nine lawyers quit in the first two weeks, The Post revealed.
Some were spurred to leave, sources said, by Bragg’s soft-on-crime approach which he outlined in a “Day One” memo directing ADAs to not seek prison sentences for many criminals and to downgrade some felonies to misdemeanors.
But sources said state criminal justice reforms are now playing a greater role in pushing out staffers.
New discovery requirements adopted by the state in 2019 are forcing lawyers to turn over reams of material to the defense and to do so under time constraints.
“It’s crippling. It’s crippling our lawyers,” said Joan Illuzzi-Orbon, a former veteran Manhattan ADA and trial division chief who famously prosecuted Harvey Weinstein, and won a 2016 conviction in the 1979 kidnapping and murder of Soho’s Etan Patz.
“You become a file clerk rather than a trial lawyer.”
Illuzzi-Orbon said for a case that might involve allegations of wrongdoing at a protest, bodycam video from every officer who was at the event might have to be produced.
“It’s insanity,” she said. “Most of it is completely irrelevant and not germane in any way to the issues of the case.”
She added that if cases take too long, they get tossed. “There are tons of cases getting dismissed,” she said.
Illuzzi-Orbon, who is now a fellow with the Manhattan Institute, said she left Bragg’s office in January because she knew he would want to put his own hires in place.
In March testimony to the City Council, Bragg said that because of the unprecedented evidentiary demands, “we’ve experienced record attrition, as our ADAs burned out and sought less demanding jobs for more money.”
Bronx DA Darcel Clark told the Council in March that those who left her office have “cited the responsibilities of discovery, managing the backlog of cases, and increased night and weekend shifts among their main reasons for leaving the office.”
NASHVILLE (Daily Caller)–Hundreds of protesters swarmed the Tennessee State Capitol on Thursday demanding gun control in the wake of Monday’s deadly school shooting. Protesters showed up outside the capitol Thursday morning as lawmakers began their session, according to WKRN. Protesters were calling for stronger gun control following Monday’s shooting in which 28-year-old transgender Audrey Hale killed three nine-year-olds and three adults at […]
It’s set to be announced in the coming days! The felony indictment was filed under seal by the Manhattan district attorney’s office, and is set to be announced in the coming days, four sources familiar with the matter told the New York Times. So, a lot can happen in this show, but one thing is certain……Continue…
Jacob Chansley, 35, who pleaded guilty to breaching the U.S. Capitol and was sentenced to 41 months in prison, was released from prison after Fox News aired footage of him being escorted by police officers inside the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021. The videotapes confirm that Chansley was innocent. Why would he plead guilty…
Some of the antics of left-leaning Nebraska Senator Megan Hunt are hard for many citizens to take. For instance, driving children to Vacation Bible School could become a misdemeanor in Nebraska if a recent proposal by the Democrat Senator passed into law. Hunt proposed to “amend” a bill that would protect children from adult-themed drag […]
By The Defender Staff Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. today called on U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg to investigate the spike in near-misses and narrowly averted airline accidents resulting from pilots incapacitated by health emergencies since 2021, coinciding with the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign in the U.S. In a letter to Buttigieg, Kennedy […]
QUESTION: Hello Martin, Been reading your writings with keen interest for over 15 years now since while you were incarcerated. My question is: The way you paint a picture of the past economies going back hundreds and thousands of years through the discovery of coinage hoards is brilliant. How will a future “Martin Armstrong” from say…
Dr Mercola Story at-a-glance In December 2013, Zaire Ebola hemorrhagic fever broke out in Guinea and over the next three years spread across West Africa, ultimately killing 11,323 people. It was the largest and deadliest Ebola outbreak in history According to a paper published at the end of December 2014, the Ebola epidemic was traced […]
President Trump gave an interesting truth today. Many are trying to figure out what “deal” he was referring to. What do you make of it? He said specifically…“I HAD A “DONE DEAL” BEFORE RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT-THEY BROKE IT! TREATED WORSE THAN TEA PARTY & EVANGELICALS…” When it comes to the man who wrote the best…Continue…
By Jyoti Narayan, Krystal Hu, Martin Coulter and Supantha Mukherjee Reuters The non-profit is primarily funded by the Musk Foundation, as well as London-based group Founders Pledge, and Silicon Valley Community Foundation, according to the European Union’s transparency register. “AI stresses me out,” Musk said earlier this month. He is one of the co-founders of […]
By Benjamin Fulford The collapse of the Western financial system is a mathematical certainty because recent rate hikes created at least an $8 trillion loss for financial institutions. Governments have been trying to foist this on the people. Revolution will be the result. This is why unprecedented unrest is overtaking France, Germany, Pakistan, Israel and […]